What is the maximal age a Smith’s vole reaches?
An adult Smith’s vole (Myodes smithii) usually gets as old as 3.5 years.
Smith’s voles are around 19 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Cricetidae family (genus: Myodes), their offspring is 4 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 10.6 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.
Smith’s vole (Myodes smithii) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is also known as Smith’s red-backed vole and is found only in Japan.This vole is named after Richard Gordon Smith, (1858–1918) who, after falling out with his wife, traveled the world hunting for animals and keeping a record of his travels and discoveries in eight large leather-bound diaries. He spent some time in Japan where he collected mammals for the British Museum, including the type specimen of this vole.
Animals of the same family as a Smith’s vole
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Cricetidae):
- Northern grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Grey red-backed vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hylaeamys megacephalus becoming 3.75 years old
- White-tipped Oldfield mouse getting as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- North American brown lemming with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing the scale to 43 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse bringing the scale to 77 grams
- Sikkim mountain vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tien Shan red-backed vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Smith’s vole
With an average age of 3.5 years, Smith’s vole are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Northern brown bandicoot usually reaching 3 years
- Silvery mole-rat usually reaching 3.08 years
- Kultarr usually reaching 3.25 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum usually reaching 3.5 years
- Talas tuco-tuco usually reaching 3 years
- Southwestern water vole usually reaching 3.5 years
- New Guinean quoll usually reaching 3 years
- Black myotis usually reaching 3.5 years
- Steppe pika usually reaching 4 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat usually reaching 4 years
Animals with the same number of babies Smith’s vole
The same number of babies at once (4) are born by:
- Geata mouse shrew
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel
- African pygmy mouse
- Townsend’s chipmunk
- Great gerbil
- Camas pocket gopher
- Rock squirrel
- Pacific shrew
- Silver mountain vole
- Alpine marmot
Weighting as much as Smith’s vole
A fully grown Smith’s vole reaches around 34 grams (0.07 lbs). So do these animals:
- Great stripe-faced bat with 35 grams
- Big crested mastiff bat with 29 grams
- Cyclops roundleaf bat with 32 grams
- Grey red-backed vole with 36 grams
- Tarabundà vole with 36 grams
- Deroo’s mouse with 32 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with 30 grams
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat with 29 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with 39 grams
- Koford’s grass mouse with 29 grams