It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed vole (Microtus longicaudus) on average weights 44 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Long-tailed vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.9 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Long-tailed voles can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 long-tailed vole (Microtus longicaudus), in some areas known as the San Bernardino long-tailed vole, is a small vole found in western North America. They have short ears and a long tail. Their fur is gray brown with light gray underparts. They are around 18 cm (7.1 in) long with an 8 cm (3.1 in) tail and weigh about 50 g (1.8 oz).
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Creeping vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Fawn hopping mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Akodon boliviensis with a weight of 27 grams
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Sagebrush vole with a weight of 28 grams
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus with a weight of 25 grams
- Dalton’s mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Gerbil mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 62 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus longicaudus:
- Polynesian rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Sepia short-tailed opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Spanish mole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Shining thicket rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Nayarit mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Musso’s fish-eating rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Dusky hopping mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-tailed vole:
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Naked mole-rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-haired water rat with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-tailed vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Long-tailed vole: