It is hard to guess what a Balkan snow vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Balkan snow vole (Dinaromys bogdanovi) on average weights 56 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Balkan snow vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Dinaromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 40.2 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Balkan snow voles have 2 babies per litter.
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 Balkan snow vole, Dinaromys bogdanovi, also known as Martino’s snow vole is the only member of the genus Dinaromys. Eight subspecies of this vole have been recognized from southern parts of Europe. The genus name means “Dinaric mouse”, referring to the Dinaric Alps. The Balkan snow vole is a living fossil, the only living genus in the tribe Pliomyini and might arguably better be placed in Pliomys, a genus established for its fossil relatives even before the Balkan snow vole was scientifically described.
Animals of the same family as a Balkan snow vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ciscaucasian hamster with 9 babies per litter
- Brants’s whistling rat with a weight of 129 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Emin’s pouched rat bringing 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) to the scale
- Van Deusen’s rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Zacatecan deer mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Argentine hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a Balkan snow vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dinaromys bogdanovi:
- Angular hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Antillean fruit-eating bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s pouched mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Hottentot golden mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Northern collared lemming bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- European snow vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Southern multimammate mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Guinea multimammate mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Balkan snow vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Balkan snow vole: