It is hard to guess what a Taiwan vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Taiwan vole (Volemys kikuchii) on average weights 46 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Taiwan vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Volemys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.4 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Taiwan voles have 1 babies per litter.
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 Taiwan vole (Microtus kikuchii) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Taiwan.
Animals of the same family as a Taiwan vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Togo mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Djoongari with a weight of 39 grams
- Buffoon striped grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- JunÃn grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Toad mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Bush rat with a weight of 124 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Taiwan vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Volemys kikuchii:
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Melanomys caliginosus bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Singing vole bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Southwestern myotis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Grayish mouse opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Taiwan vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Taiwan vole:
- Fly River water rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray short-tailed opossum with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smoky mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern hopping mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Taiwan vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Taiwan vole: