It is hard to guess what a Townsend’s vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Townsend’s vole (Microtus townsendii) on average weights 52 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Townsend’s vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.8 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Townsend’s voles have 5 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.
Townsend’s vole (Microtus townsendii) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, the sister species of M. canicaudus. It is found in temperate grasslands of British Columbia in Canada and in the states of Washington and Oregon in the United States.Greek root words for “small ear” are the source for the genus name Microtus. American naturalist and writer John Kirk Townsend collected the type specimen in 1835, which accounts for the second part of the name.
Animals of the same family as a Townsend’s vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Marmoset rat with a weight of 70 grams
- Chinese bamboo rat with 3 babies per litter
- Cape York melomys with a weight of 70 grams
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat bringing 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) to the scale
- Long-haired rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 118 grams
- Oecomys rex with a weight of 73 grams
- Single-striped grass mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Tondano rat with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Townsend’s vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus townsendii:
- Short-tailed gymnure bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Yellow-sided opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Lukolela swamp rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Naked-rumped pouched bat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys intectus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Lodgepole chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Grayish mouse opossum bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Townsend’s vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Townsend’s vole:
- Heath mouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray slender opossum with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-toed hedgehog with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Congo rope squirrel with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gilliard’s flying fox with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Townsend’s vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Townsend’s vole: