How many baby White-footed voles are in a litter?
A White-footed vole (Arborimus albipes) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Arborimus). An adult White-footed vole grows up to a size of 10.3 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 white-footed vole (Arborimus albipes) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
Other animals of the family Muridae
White-footed vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat raching a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinea waterside rat weighting only 526 grams
- White-throated grass mouse weighting only 42 grams
- Chinanteco deer mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Dent’s vlei rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Abrothrix longipilis with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eremoryzomys weighting only 60 grams
Animals that share a litter size with White-footed vole
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Common marmoset
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- Congo rope squirrel
- Eastern common cuscus
- Radde’s shrew
- Eastern gray squirrel
- Northern palm squirrel
- Red-legged sun squirrel
- Cape ground squirrel
- Durango chipmunk
Animals with the same weight as a White-footed vole
What other animals weight around 23 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Krebs’s fat mouse weighting 20 grams
- Western shrew mouse weighting 21 grams
- Blackish grass mouse weighting 19 grams
- Intermediate roundleaf bat weighting 19 grams
- Scolomys melanops weighting 26 grams
- Lesser long-nosed bat weighting 22 grams
- African yellow bat weighting 25 grams
- Stella wood mouse weighting 19 grams
- Creeping vole weighting 20 grams
- Western heather vole weighting 25 grams
Animals with the same size as a White-footed vole
Also reaching around 10.3 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-tailed phascogale gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Habbema dasyure gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood mouse gets as big as 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed potoroo gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s vole gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)