It is hard to guess what a Eastern heather vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern heather vole (Phenacomys ungava) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Eastern heather vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Phenacomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Eastern heather voles have 4 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 eastern heather vole, (Phenacomys ungava), is a small North American vole. Until recently, this species was considered to belong to the same species as the western heather vole, Phenacomys intermedius. It is also called the Ungava vole.Though some studies have indicated that Phenacomys ungava is “rare” or “uncommon,” other researchers have found that the animal can be common locally, and others have suggested that the population may undergo cyclic abundance.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern heather vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Northern collared lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- Lesser bamboo rat with a weight of 472 grams
- Chinanteco deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chiapan climbing rat with a weight of 280 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus with a weight of 60 grams
- Barbary striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern heather vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phenacomys ungava:
- Little red kaluta bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Cotton mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Common sheath-tailed bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Large Asian roundleaf bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- White-lined broad-nosed bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern heather vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Eastern heather vole: