It is hard to guess what a California vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult California vole (Microtus californicus) on average weights 57 grams (0.13 lbs).
The California vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.9 cm (0′ 6″). On average, California voles can have babies 5 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 California vole (Microtus californicus) is a type of vole which lives throughout much of California and part of southwestern Oregon. It is also known as the California meadow mouse. It averages 172 mm (6.8 in) in length although this length varies greatly between subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a California vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Golden mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Sandy inland mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Forrest’s mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Water vole (North America) with a weight of 92 grams
- Black-eared mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a California vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus californicus:
- Andean swamp rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Aquatic rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Smoky mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Oreoryzomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Four-toed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a California vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as California vole:
- Short-tailed gymnure with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky field rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a California vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a California vole: