It is hard to guess what a Meadow vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) on average weights 42 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Meadow vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 0.92 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.8 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Meadow voles can have babies 2 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 meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus), sometimes called the field mouse or meadow mouse, is a North American vole found across Canada, Alaska and the northern United States. Its range extends farther south along the Atlantic coast. One subspecies, the Florida salt marsh vole (M. p. dukecampbelli), is found in Florida, and is classified as endangered. Previously it was also found in Chihuahua, Mexico, but has not been recorded since 1998.The meadow vole is active year-round, usually at night. It also digs burrows, where it stores food for the winter and females give birth to their young. Although these animals tend to live close together, they are aggressive towards one another. This is particularly evident in males during the breeding season. They can cause damage to fruit trees, garden plants, and commercial grain crops.
Animals of the same family as a Meadow vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Arianus’s rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Akodon aerosus with a weight of 60 grams
- White-footed mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Southern bog lemming with a weight of 28 grams
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 34 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Meadow vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus pennsylvanicus:
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Social vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Cuban fruit-eating bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Cursor grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Dusky hopping mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Yellow-pine chipmunk bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Meadow vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Meadow vole:
- Chiruromys lamia with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain pygmy possum with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Akodon spegazzinii with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Meadow vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Meadow vole:
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Coyote
- Fat-tailed false antechinus
- Garden dormouse
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse
- Oligoryzomys flavescens
- Gray marmot
- Long-tailed shrew
- Grey red-backed vole
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Meadow vole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Meadow vole:
- Water vole (North America) with an average maximal age of 0.75 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Wood lemming with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 0.75 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Myosorex varius with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Eligmodontia typus with an average maximal age of 0.75 years