It is hard to guess what a Flat-headed vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Flat-headed vole (Alticola strelzowi) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Flat-headed vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Alticola). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Flat-headed voles can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 6.
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 flat-headed vole (Alticola strelzowi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russian Federation.
Animals of the same family as a Flat-headed vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oligoryzomys griseolus with a weight of 25 grams
- Reed vole with 5 babies per litter
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fossorial giant rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Magdalena rat with a weight of 130 grams
- Tropical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Tatra pine vole with 2 babies per litter
- Cochabamba grass mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Flat-headed vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Alticola strelzowi:
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Indian bush rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Meadow vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- El Carrizo deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Eastern tube-nosed bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Cairo spiny mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Pousargues African fat mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Chihuahuan mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Flat-headed vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Flat-headed vole:
- Zempoaltepec with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Flat-headed vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Flat-headed vole: