How many baby Singing voles are in a litter?
A Singing vole (Microtus miurus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.8 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Microtus). An adult Singing vole grows up to a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The singing vole (Microtus miurus), is a medium-sized vole found in northwestern North America, including Alaska and northwestern Canada.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Singing vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Arizona woodrat weighting only 200 grams
- Hispid hocicudo weighting only 36 grams
- Florida mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Savi’s pine vole weighting only 20 grams
- Montane vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Red-nosed mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Ciscaucasian hamster with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Kaiser’s rock rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Singing vole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Large mole
- Southeastern shrew
- Himalayan pika
- Neotropical otter
- Bunny rat
- European mole
- Greater red musk shrew
- Severtzov’s jerboa
- Southern grasshopper mouse
- Red rock rat
Animals with the same weight as a Singing vole
What other animals weight around 41 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Roraima mouse weighting 33 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat weighting 33 grams
- Akodon sylvanus weighting 39 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis weighting 38 grams
- Cairo spiny mouse weighting 41 grams
- Macroscelides proboscideus weighting 38 grams
- Melanomys caliginosus weighting 41 grams
- Fawn antechinus weighting 38 grams
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum weighting 47 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting 41 grams
Animals with the same size as a Singing vole
Also reaching around 11.9 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Big-eared woolly bat gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-haired water rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican volcano mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lodgepole chipmunk gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hottentot golden mole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large tree mouse gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moss-forest rat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)