It is hard to guess what a Northern red-backed vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern red-backed vole (Myodes rutilus) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Northern red-backed vole is from the family Cricetidae (genus: Myodes). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Northern red-backed 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 northern red-backed vole (Myodes rutilus) is a small slender vole found in Alaska, northern Canada, Scandinavia and northern Russia.
Animals of the same family as a Northern red-backed vole
We found other animals of the Cricetidae family:
- North American brown lemming with a weight of 69 grams
- Abrothrix andinus with a weight of 24 grams
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni with a weight of 24 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 120 grams
- White-tipped Oldfield mouse with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Pleasant bolo mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- European water vole with a weight of 120 grams
- Northern grass mouse with a weight of 44 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern red-backed vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myodes rutilus:
- Chinese mole shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- White-bellied free-tailed bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Eastern shrew mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean pine vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Savanna swamp shrew bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Sonoran harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Intermediate roundleaf bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern red-backed vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern red-backed vole:
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Uinta chipmunk with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Flat-headed vole with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern red-backed vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Northern red-backed vole: