It is hard to guess what a Wood lemming weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) on average weights 30 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Wood lemming is from the family Muridae (genus: Myopus). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 1 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 36.3 cm (1′ 3″). On average, Wood lemmings can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae. It belongs to the rodent subfamily Arvicolinae, so is a relative of the voles, lemmings, and muskrats.It is found in the taiga biome of China, Finland, Mongolia, Norway, Russia, and Sweden.
Animals of the same family as a Wood lemming
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per litter
- Jalapan pine vole with a weight of 40 grams
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 69 grams
- Goldman’s woodrat with a weight of 198 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus with a weight of 49 grams
- Mexican deer mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Slender harvest mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a Wood lemming
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myopus schisticolor:
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Southern vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Cochabamba grass mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Western jumping mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Southern vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Montane wood mouse bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Bastard big-footed mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s chaco mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Wood lemming
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Wood lemming:
- Western quoll
- Coypu
- Meadow vole
- Grey dwarf hamster
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa
- Eurasian harvest mouse
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Persian jird
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Euphrates jerboa
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Wood lemming
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Wood lemming:
- Hottentot golden mole with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Meadow vole with an average maximal age of 0.92 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Myosorex varius with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years