It is hard to guess what a Steppe lemming weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Steppe lemming (Lagurus lagurus) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Steppe lemming is from the family Muridae (genus: Lagurus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.3 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Steppe lemmings can have babies 5 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 steppe lemming or steppe vole (Lagurus lagurus) is a small, plump, light-grey rodent, similar in appearance to the Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus), but not in the same genus. The steppe lemming eats shoots and leaves and is more active at night, though it is not strictly nocturnal. In the wild, it is found in Russia and Ukraine in steppes and semiarid environments. Fossil remains of this species have been found in areas as far west as Great Britain.
Animals of the same family as a Steppe lemming
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Insular vole with a weight of 66 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
- Miller’s striped mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Philippine forest rat with a weight of 253 grams
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Afghan vole with 2 babies per litter
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a weight of 200 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Robert’s hocicudo with a weight of 83 grams
- Cape gerbil with a weight of 92 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Steppe lemming
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lagurus lagurus:
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Ural field mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Stella wood mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Neacomys spinosus bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Tufted pygmy squirrel bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Long-tongued nectar bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Agile antechinus bringing 22 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Steppe lemming
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Steppe lemming:
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- California red tree mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Steppe lemming
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Steppe lemming: