It is hard to guess what a Red tree vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red tree vole (Arborimus longicaudus) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Red tree vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Arborimus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.3 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Red tree 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 red tree vole (Arborimus longicaudus) is a rodent of the Pacific Northwest, found in Oregon and California.
Animals of the same family as a Red tree vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mindoro striped rat with a weight of 152 grams
- Chelemys macronyx with a weight of 72 grams
- Puno grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Tamarisk jird with 4 babies per litter
- Alpine woolly rat bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- Prairie vole with a weight of 42 grams
- Oligoryzomys flavescens with a weight of 21 grams
- Large Luzon forest rat with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Small hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 78 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red tree vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Arborimus longicaudus:
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Sinaloan mastiff bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Wood sprite gracile opossum bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Hairy big-eyed bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Andean vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Long-tongued fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Thespian grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red tree vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red tree vole:
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- California red tree mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Great fruit-eating bat with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red tree vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Red tree vole: