It is hard to guess what a Southern bog lemming weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern bog lemming (Synaptomys cooperi) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Southern bog lemming is from the family Muridae (genus: Synaptomys). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 2.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Southern bog lemmings can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 southern bog lemming (Synaptomys cooperi) is a small North American lemming. Its range overlaps with the other species in genus Synaptomys, the northern bog lemming, in southeastern Canada, but extends further south.
Animals of the same family as a Southern bog lemming
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Silver mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a weight of 357 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Irenomys with a weight of 43 grams
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same weight as a Southern bog lemming
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Synaptomys cooperi:
- Puno grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Blackish deer mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Silky mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Northern gracile opossum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Cyclops roundleaf bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Roraima mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Bailey’s pocket mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Akodon spegazzinii bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern bog lemming
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern bog lemming:
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Montane vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Zempoaltépec vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern bog lemming
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Southern bog lemming:
- Celebes warty pig
- Lesser hamster-rat
- White-ankled mouse
- Raccoon
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- Chinese bamboo rat
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa
- Nyika rock rat
- Long-tailed marmot
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southern bog lemming
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southern bog lemming:
- Marsh rice rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Hoary bat with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Broad-footed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Delany’s mouse with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Cape mole-rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with an average maximal age of 2.58 years