It is hard to guess what a Common vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common vole (Microtus arvalis) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Common vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.4 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Common voles can have babies 6 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 common vole (Microtus arvalis) is a European rodent.
Animals of the same family as a Common vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Senegal gerbil with a weight of 60 grams
- Thespian grass mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Large bamboo rat bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Taiwan vole with a weight of 46 grams
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 26 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a weight of 286 grams
- Brown rat with a weight of 282 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus arvalis:
- Crocidura grandiceps bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Asian particolored bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Pacific jumping mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded tomb bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys microtis bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Soft grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Short-palated fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Florida mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common vole:
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-striped dasyure with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shining thicket rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Common vole:
- Wild boar
- Giant kangaroo rat
- Greater stripe-backed shrew
- Brown four-eyed opossum
- American red squirrel
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil
- Sundevall’s jird
- Gerbil mouse
- Wolf
- Boehm’s gerbil
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common vole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common vole:
- Asian house shrew with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Woodland vole with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Eurasian water shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 3.17 years