How many baby Stolička’s mountain voles are in a litter?
A Stolička’s mountain vole (Alticola stoliczkanus) usually gives birth to around 7 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 294 grams (0.65 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Alticola). An adult Stolička’s mountain vole grows up to a size of 10.8 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.
Stolička’s or Stoliczka’s mountain vole (Alticola stoliczkanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in China, Pakistan, India and Nepal.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Stolička’s mountain vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Muskrat with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Mount Apo forest mouse weighting only 34 grams
- Mesquite mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Tundra vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed harvest mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Great Key Island giant rat raching a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Long-nosed hocicudo weighting only 67 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Krebs’s fat mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Oecomys flavicans weighting only 73 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Stolička’s mountain vole
Those animals also give birth to 7 babies at once:
- Long-tailed ground squirrel
- Southern multimammate mouse
- Southern ningaui
- European hamster
- Little long-tailed dunnart
- Drylands vesper mouse
- Red-tailed phascogale
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- Lutrine opossum
Animals with the same weight as a Stolička’s mountain vole
What other animals weight around 30 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Least gerbil weighting 26 grams
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil weighting 26 grams
- Himalayan water shrew weighting 33 grams
- Ash-grey mouse weighting 30 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting 24 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat weighting 26 grams
- Grey red-backed vole weighting 36 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting 24 grams
- Chinese dormouse weighting 31 grams
- Mexican vole weighting 34 grams
Animals with the same size as a Stolička’s mountain vole
Also reaching around 10.8 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Bower’s white-toothed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- De Winton’s golden mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican deer mouse gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- African giant shrew gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yucatan deer mouse gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Stirton’s deer mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)