It is hard to guess what a Silver mountain vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Silver mountain vole (Alticola argentatus) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Silver mountain vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Alticola). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Silver mountain voles can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 silver mountain vole (Alticola argentatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. They are distinguished by their silver-grey pelage, long vibrissae, rootless hypsodont molars and angular skull shape. Like many mammals of the Eurasian Steppe eco-region, they are well adapted to life in high altitudes, and can be found in mountain areas of Central and North Asia from the Chukchi Peninsula in the north-east to Kugitang Range in the west, and to Tibet and the Himalayas in the south.
Animals of the same family as a Silver mountain vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Cochabamba grass mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Charming thicket rat with a weight of 61 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 45 grams
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a weight of 71 grams
- Chiapan deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- White-footed vole with a weight of 23 grams
- California vole with a weight of 57 grams
- Typical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Glacier rat with a weight of 66 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Silver mountain vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Alticola argentatus:
- African giant shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Moupin pika bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Singing vole bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Greater false vampire bat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Ecuadorian grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Handley’s slender opossum bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Mindanao montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Silver mountain vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Silver mountain vole:
- Southern three-striped opossum with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Feather-tailed possum with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Agile gracile opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pyrenean desman with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Silver mountain vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Silver mountain vole: