It is hard to guess what a Insular vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Insular vole (Microtus abbreviatus) on average weights 66 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Insular 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 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Insular voles have 3 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 insular vole or St. Matthew Island vole (Microtus abbreviatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It occurs only on St. Matthew Island and the adjacent Hall Island, in Alaska. On these Bering Sea islands, insular voles live in damp lowland areas, on the lower slopes of mountains, and on rye grass-covered beaches. They are diurnal and eat plant matter. Birds and Arctic foxes (which are the only other mammals on the island) prey on the voles.
Animals of the same family as a Insular vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Small vesper mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Edward’s swamp rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Persian jird with a weight of 108 grams
- Hispid hocicudo with a weight of 36 grams
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ecuadorian grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse with a weight of 83 grams
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Insular vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus abbreviatus:
- Madagascan rousette bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Link rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Mamore arboreal rice rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Zambian mole-rat bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Greater nectar bat bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Aquatic rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Forest Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Dark-tailed tree rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Insular vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Insular vole: