It is hard to guess what a Montane vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Montane vole (Microtus montanus) on average weights 42 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Montane 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 12.4 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Montane voles can have babies 4 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 montane vole (Microtus montanus) is a species of vole native to the western United States and Canada.
Animals of the same family as a Montane vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Short-haired water rat with a weight of 33 grams
- Ural field mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Crete spiny mouse with a weight of 62 grams
- Peters’s mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Hispid cotton rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Neuquén grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Guinean gerbil with a weight of 103 grams
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Montane vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus montanus:
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Günther’s vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Arrow flying squirrel bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Great stripe-faced bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Saunder’s vlei rat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Lesser tree mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse bringing 47 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Montane vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Montane vole:
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Allen’s chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed mouse with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Spotted ground squirrel with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Montane vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Montane vole: