How many baby Woodland voles are in a litter?
A Woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Microtus). An adult Woodland vole grows up to a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum) is a small vole found in eastern North America. It is also known as the pine vole.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Woodland vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Creeping vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dark-tailed tree rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Tawitawi forest rat raching a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Afghan vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse weighting only 41 grams
- Abrothrix jelskii weighting only 34 grams
- Northern pygmy mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse weighting only 45 grams
- Black-clawed brush-furred rat weighting only 10 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Woodland vole
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Greenish yellow bat
- Transcaspian vole
- Lusitanian pine vole
- Tolai hare
- Jaguarundi
- Sonoran woodrat
- Buller’s chipmunk
- Balkan snow vole
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat
- Turbo shrew
Animals that get as old as a Woodland vole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.75 years:
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with 3 years
- Dibbler with 3 years
- Southern bog lemming with 2.5 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with 3.17 years
- Dibatag with 3 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with 3 years
- Highland streaked tenrec with 2.58 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with 2.42 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 2.67 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 2.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland vole
What other animals weight around 26 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Long-eared flying mouse weighting 27 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat weighting 21 grams
- Osgood’s mouse weighting 27 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting 28 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse weighting 27 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting 24 grams
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat weighting 26 grams
- Lined pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- Akodon azarae weighting 25 grams
- Pacific jumping mouse weighting 27 grams
Animals with the same size as a Woodland vole
Also reaching around 9.9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Western shrew mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-necked mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nicobar shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern three-striped opossum gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Junin slender opossum gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gould’s mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiruromys lamia gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali serotine gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)