It is hard to guess what a Cabrera’s vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cabrera’s vole (Microtus cabrerae) on average weights 52 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Cabrera’s vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.4 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Cabrera’s vole (Microtus cabrerae) is a species of vole native to Spain and Portugal. It is named for Ángel Cabrera, a mammalogist then working at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid. It is the only living member of the subgenus Iberomys, although two fossil species are also known, including M. brecciensis, the likely direct ancestor of the living species.
Animals of the same family as a Cabrera’s vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a weight of 356 grams
- Temminck’s striped mouse with a weight of 60 grams
- Hoary bamboo rat bringing 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) to the scale
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Florida naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Emin’s gerbil with a weight of 52 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 150 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cabrera’s vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus cabrerae:
- Large myotis bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- European snow vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys melanotis bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Arrow flying squirrel bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Palmer’s chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Plains rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 56 grams to the scale