How many baby Taiwan voles are in a litter?
A Taiwan vole (Volemys kikuchii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6.09 kg (13.42 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Volemys). An adult Taiwan vole grows up to a size of 12.4 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 Taiwan vole (Microtus kikuchii) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Taiwan.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Taiwan vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Deroo’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine pine vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse weighting only 41 grams
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Smoke-bellied rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Altiplano grass mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Paramo Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Water vole (North America) with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Taiwan vole
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Nilgiri langur
- Black capuchin
- Proboscis monkey
- Bearded seal
- Western white-eared giant rat
- Mauritian tomb bat
- African brush-tailed porcupine
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Spectral tarsier
- Thomson’s gazelle
Animals with the same weight as a Taiwan vole
What other animals weight around 46 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse weighting 47 grams
- Bushveld elephant shrew weighting 48 grams
- JunÃn grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure weighting 54 grams
- Hairy fruit-eating bat weighting 40 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse weighting 43 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting 41 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale weighting 43 grams
- Emin’s gerbil weighting 52 grams
- Grayish mouse opossum weighting 48 grams
Animals with the same size as a Taiwan vole
Also reaching around 12.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Visagie’s golden mole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hainan gymnure gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern three-striped opossum gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- South African pouched mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Madagascan rousette gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-tailed phascogale gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)