How many baby Tarabundí voles are in a litter?
A Tarabundí vole (Microtus oaxacensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
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 Tarabundí vole grows up to a size of 12.1 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 Tarabundí vole (Microtus oaxacensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Tarabundí vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Indian desert jird with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Intelligent grass mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Black-tailed tree rat weighting only 125 grams
- Blackish deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Angoni vlei rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-clawed mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy giant rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Flat-headed vole with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Kemp’s gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Arizona woodrat weighting only 200 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Tarabundí vole
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gemsbok
- Arabian gazelle
- Sambar deer
- Greater false vampire bat
- Squirrel glider
- Robert’s snow vole
- Moustached guenon
- Long-tongued fruit bat
- Pudú
- Angola colobus
Animals with the same weight as a Tarabundí vole
What other animals weight around 36 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Mexican vole weighting 34 grams
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat weighting 35 grams
- Short-haired water rat weighting 33 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec weighting 34 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat weighting 30 grams
- Saunder’s vlei rat weighting 34 grams
- Southwestern myotis weighting 38 grams
- Tundra vole weighting 33 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure weighting 38 grams
- Nayarit mouse weighting 40 grams
Animals with the same size as a Tarabundí vole
Also reaching around 12.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Akodon spegazzinii gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-haired water rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nicobar shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Goldman’s woodrat gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cotton mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dayak fruit bat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Web-footed tenrec gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)