It is hard to guess what a Woodland vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Woodland vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 2.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Woodland voles can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum) is a small vole found in eastern North America. It is also known as the pine vole.
Animals of the same family as a Woodland vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Savile’s bandicoot rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Black-footed tree-rat with a weight of 716 grams
- El Dorado grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Glacier rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Slender rat with a weight of 109 grams
- Pilliga mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Sandy inland mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Ash-grey mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Peters’s mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus pinetorum:
- Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed pygmy possum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Carriker’s round-eared bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Gray-tailed vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Woodland jumping mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Woodland vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woodland vole:
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Zempoaltépec vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- California kangaroo rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- São Paulo grass mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woodland vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Woodland vole:
- Indian grey mongoose
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Allegheny woodrat
- Lion
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Javan mongoose
- Aardwolf
- Tayra
- Fossa (animal)
- Short-tailed chinchilla
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woodland vole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woodland vole:
- Silky anteater with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Common opossum with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Eurasian water shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Monito del monte with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with an average maximal age of 3 years