It is hard to guess what a Steppe pika weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla) on average weights 143 grams (0.32 lbs).
The Steppe pika is from the family Ochotonidae (genus: Ochotona). It is usually born with about 6 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.7 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Steppe pikas can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 8.
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 pika (Ochotona pusilla) is a small mammal of the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is found in the steppes of south Russia and northern Kazakhstan.
Animals of the same family as a Steppe pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Himalayan pika with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ladak pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian pika with a weight of 131 grams
- Northern pika with a weight of 120 grams
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sardinian pika with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Chinese red pika with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same weight as a Steppe pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona pusilla:
- Western nesomys bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Chacoan tuco-tuco bringing 166 grams to the scale
- Mountain viscacha rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Lesser stick-nest rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Ruddy treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Garden dormouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Steppe pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Steppe pika:
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siberian chipmunk with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Steppe pika
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Steppe pika:
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
- White-footed dunnart
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster
- Tundra shrew
- Townsend’s ground squirrel
- Chestnut dunnart
- European polecat
- Dusky antechinus
- Grayish mouse opossum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Steppe pika
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Steppe pika:
- Southwestern water vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Giant golden mole with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- European hamster with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Field vole with an average maximal age of 3.25 years