It is hard to guess what a Arctic lemming weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arctic lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus) on average weights 78 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Arctic lemming is from the family Muridae (genus: Dicrostonyx). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 3.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Arctic lemmings can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 3.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Arctic lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae.Although generally classified as a “least concern” species, the Novaya Zemlya subspecies (Dicrostonyx torquatus ungulatus) is considered a vulnerable species under Russian nature conservation legislation (included in Red Book of Russian Federation since 1998).
Animals of the same family as a Arctic lemming
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 29 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 144 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Rock vole with a weight of 39 grams
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Ruwenzori thicket rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Emperor rat bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- Chiruromys lamia with a weight of 47 grams
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Alpine woolly rat bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Arctic lemming
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dicrostonyx torquatus:
- Mearns’s pouched mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Red mouse opossum bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Central American dwarf squirrel bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Long-footed water rat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Venezuelan climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Arctic lemming
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Arctic lemming:
- Oldfield mouse
- Egyptian mongoose
- Cape gerbil
- Kobe mole
- Brants’s climbing mouse
- Volcano harvest mouse
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Rock pocket mouse
- Sado mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Arctic lemming
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Arctic lemming:
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Forest dormouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 4 years
- White-footed mouse with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Monito del monte with an average maximal age of 3.17 years