It is hard to guess what a Père David’s vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Père David’s vole (Eothenomys melanogaster) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Père David’s vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Eothenomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Père David’s voles have 1 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.
Père David’s vole (Eothenomys melanogaster) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in China, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Thailand. This species is a member of the melanogaster group, one of the two main groups of Eothenomys voles. Its dorsal pelage is dark brown, often nearly black, and the ventral pelage is gray, sometimes brown. The tail is shorter than the body. This species is found in pine/rhododendron forests.
Animals of the same family as a Père David’s vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Paramo hocicudo with a weight of 41 grams
- Insular vole with a weight of 66 grams
- Large bamboo rat bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Small vesper mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Chestnut tree mouse with a weight of 46 grams
- Northeast African mole-rat with a weight of 227 grams
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Bushy-tailed jird with a weight of 56 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Père David’s vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eothenomys melanogaster:
- Mexican long-tongued bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Neacomys tenuipes bringing 19 grams to the scale
- White-bellied yellow bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Red tree vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Least pygmy squirrel bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Père David’s vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Père David’s vole:
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- African giant shrew with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common rock rat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Delicate slender opossum with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Père David’s vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Père David’s vole: