It is hard to guess what a Royle’s mountain vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Royle’s mountain vole (Alticola roylei) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Royle’s mountain vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Alticola). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Royle’s mountain voles can have babies 10 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.
Royle’s mountain vole (Alticola roylei) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in China, Nepal and India.
Animals of the same family as a Royle’s mountain vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Barbary striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Fawn-colored mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Peters’s mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Northern hopping mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Western shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- White-tailed rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Luzon broad-toothed rat with a weight of 268 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Royle’s mountain vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Alticola roylei:
- San José Island kangaroo rat bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Smith’s vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Akodon sylvanus bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Irenomys bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed false antechinus bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Cloud forest grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Wood lemming bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Royle’s mountain vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Royle’s mountain vole: