It is hard to guess what a Sagebrush vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sagebrush vole (Lemmiscus curtatus) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Sagebrush vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Lemmiscus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.3 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Sagebrush voles have 5 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 sagebrush vole (Lemmiscus curtatus) is a tiny vole found in western North America. This is the only member of genus Lemmiscus.They are somewhat similar in appearance to lemmings. They have chunky bodies with short legs and a very short tail which is covered in fur and lighter below. They have fluffy dull grey fur with lighter underparts. They range from 11–14 cm in length with a tail length of around 1.8-2.7 cm and a mass of around 21-39 g.These animals are found in dry open brushy areas in the western United States and southern parts of western Canada. They feed on grasses and leaves in summer and sagebrush, bark and twigs in winter. Predators include owls, coyotes, bobcats and weasels.Female voles have 5 or more litters of 4 to 6 young in a year. The young are born in a nest in a burrow.They are active year-round, day and night, but are usually more active near sunrise and sunset. They make trails through the surface vegetation and also dig burrows with many entrances. They burrow under the snow in winter. These animals are often found in colonies.
Animals of the same family as a Sagebrush vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sula rat with a weight of 131 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Oecomys flavicans with a weight of 73 grams
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Tete veld aethomys with a weight of 133 grams
- Social vole with a weight of 48 grams
- New Holland mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Indian desert jird with a weight of 71 grams
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a weight of 19 grams
- Akodon aerosus with a weight of 60 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sagebrush vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lemmiscus curtatus:
- Panama slender opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- White-footed dunnart bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Brown antechinus bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Tyler’s mouse opossum bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys arenalis bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Buffoon striped grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Serra do Mar grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys destructor bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sagebrush vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sagebrush vole:
- Least pygmy squirrel with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandstone false antechinus with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Prairie vole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sagebrush vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Sagebrush vole: