How many baby Taiwan voles are in a litter?
A Taiwan vole (Microtus kikuchii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Cricetidae family (genus: Microtus). An adult Taiwan vole grows up to a size of 12.3 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 Cricetidae
Taiwan vole is a member of the Cricetidae, as are these animals:
- Dark bolo mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western red-backed vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brucepattersonius iheringi weighting only 43 grams
- Sikkim mountain vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Smith’s vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Blackish grass mouse weighting only 19 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting only 24 grams
- Northern grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse weighting only 47 grams
- Olive grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Taiwan vole
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Moose
- Great fruit-eating bat
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Java mouse-deer
- Mountain paca
- Black flying fox
- Bornean orangutan
- Jalapan pine vole
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
Animals with the same weight as a Taiwan vole
What other animals weight around 46 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Single-striped grass mouse weighting 50 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat weighting 41 grams
- Chiapan deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- False water rat weighting 45 grams
- Marsh rice rat weighting 53 grams
- Cloud forest grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure weighting 53 grams
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew weighting 50 grams
- Highland brush mouse weighting 54 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 43 grams
Animals with the same size as a Taiwan vole
Also reaching around 12.3 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Gunning’s golden mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Champion’s tree mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Banks flying fox gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chinese water shrew gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bramble Cay melomys gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-toothed brush mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)