It is hard to guess what a Tarabundí vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tarabundí vole (Microtus oaxacensis) on average weights 36 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Tarabundí vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Tarabundí 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 Tarabundí vole (Microtus oaxacensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Tarabundí vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 144 grams
- Diminutive woodrat with a weight of 80 grams
- Golden-backed tree-rat with a weight of 294 grams
- Eastern shrew mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Tropical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Eversmann’s hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Abrothrix jelskii with a weight of 34 grams
- Brown rat with a weight of 282 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tarabundí vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus oaxacensis:
- Tawny deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Grant’s rock mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Woolly horseshoe bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Large myotis bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Malayan free-tailed bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Molina’s grass mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Forest dormouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tarabundí vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tarabundí vole:
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sonoma chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tarabundí vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Tarabundí vole: