What is the maximal age a Common vole reaches?
An adult Common vole (Microtus arvalis) usually gets as old as 3 years.
Common voles are around 21 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.3 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Muridae family (genus: Microtus), a Common vole caries out around 4 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 6 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The common vole (Microtus arvalis) is a European rodent.
Animals of the same family as a Common vole
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Muridae):
- Angular hocicudo bringing the scale to 67 grams
- Long-tailed mountain rat bringing the scale to 79 grams
- European water vole becoming 5 years old
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing the scale to 28 grams
- Southern mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Edward’s swamp rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Flat-haired mouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Common vole
With an average age of 3 years, Common vole are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Kultarr usually reaching 3.25 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 3.33 years
- Monito del monte usually reaching 3.17 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum usually reaching 3.5 years
- Chestnut tree mouse usually reaching 2.42 years
- Red hocicudo usually reaching 2.58 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat usually reaching 2.83 years
- Four-striped grass mouse usually reaching 2.83 years
- Black myotis usually reaching 3.5 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec usually reaching 2.67 years
Animals with the same number of babies Common vole
The same number of babies at once (4) are born by:
- Japanese grass vole
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Small five-toed jerboa
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse
- Greater hamster-rat
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil
- Large bamboo rat
- Andean vesper mouse
- Side-striped jackal
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse
Weighting as much as Common vole
A fully grown Common vole reaches around 26 grams (0.06 lbs). So do these animals:
- Lesser bulldog bat with 31 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with 26 grams
- Greater mouse-eared bat with 25 grams
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with 30 grams
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with 31 grams
- Long-winged tomb bat with 25 grams
- White-footed dunnart with 24 grams
- Sinaloan mastiff bat with 22 grams
- Cerrado mouse with 24 grams
- Yellow-necked mouse with 31 grams
Animals as big as a Common vole
Those animals grow as big as a Common vole:
- South African pouched mouse with 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow vole with 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western shrew mouse with 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse with 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tundra vole with 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coast mole with 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed phascogale with 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus with 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)