It is hard to guess what a Southern vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern vole (Microtus rossiaemeridionalis) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Southern vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.4 cm (0′ 7″).
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 vole (Microtus levis) is a species of vole (rodent) in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Iran, Svalbard (accidentally introduced), North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine and Norway. On Svalbard, they were first discovered in 1960 in the Grumantbyen area, and were thought to be the common vole until a genetic analysis correctly identified them in 1990.
Animals of the same family as a Southern vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 47 grams
- White-throated woodrat with a weight of 208 grams
- Yellow-haired hill rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Lesser bandicoot rat with a weight of 227 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Brants’s whistling rat with a weight of 129 grams
- Large Luzon forest rat with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a Southern vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus rossiaemeridionalis:
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Four-striped grass mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Crested-tailed deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Koford’s grass mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Tawny deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Black-eared mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Panamint kangaroo rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Montane vole bringing 42 grams to the scale