It is hard to guess what a Mediterranean pine vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mediterranean pine vole (Microtus duodecimcostatus) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Mediterranean pine vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Mediterranean pine voles have 2 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 Mediterranean pine vole (Microtus duodecimcostatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in France, Andorra, Portugal, and Spain where it lives in a network of shallow tunnels.
Animals of the same family as a Mediterranean pine vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Desert mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat with a weight of 175 grams
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gould’s mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 82 grams
- Large Luzon forest rat with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mediterranean pine vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus duodecimcostatus:
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Creeping vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Long-winged tomb bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Yellow golden mole bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Grant’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed dunnart bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Mediterranean pine vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Mediterranean pine vole: