What is the maximal age a Southern bog lemming reaches?
An adult Southern bog lemming (Synaptomys cooperi) usually gets as old as 2.5 years.
Southern bog lemmings are around 23 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 11.2 cm (0′ 5″). As a member of the Muridae family (genus: Synaptomys), a Southern bog lemming caries out around 3 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 10.5 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 southern bog lemming (Synaptomys cooperi) is a small North American lemming. Its range overlaps with the other species in genus Synaptomys, the northern bog lemming, in southeastern Canada, but extends further south.
Animals of the same family as a Southern bog lemming
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Muridae):
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat getting as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-throated woodrat becoming 7.67 years old
- Small-toothed harvest mouse bringing the scale to 20 grams
- Greater mole-rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Silver mountain vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing the scale to 24 grams
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse bringing the scale to 77 grams
- Santa Cruz mouse bringing the scale to 21 grams
- Northern bog lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Glacier rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Southern bog lemming
With an average age of 2.5 years, Southern bog lemming are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Swamp antechinus usually reaching 2 years
- Etruscan shrew usually reaching 2.67 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart usually reaching 2 years
- Talas tuco-tuco usually reaching 3 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus usually reaching 3 years
- Mediterranean water shrew usually reaching 2 years
- Star-nosed mole usually reaching 3 years
- Highland streaked tenrec usually reaching 2.58 years
- Broad-footed mole usually reaching 3 years
- Eastern harvest mouse usually reaching 2.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Southern bog lemming
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Fisher (animal)
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Holochilus brasiliensis
- Hispid pocket mouse
- Woodland dormouse
- Rajah spiny rat
- Gambian pouched rat
- Capybara
- Slender harvest mouse
- Hog badger
Weighting as much as Southern bog lemming
A fully grown Southern bog lemming reaches around 28 grams (0.06 lbs). So do these animals:
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with 29 grams
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat with 25 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with 33 grams
- Myotis vivesi with 25 grams
- Eastern heather vole with 27 grams
- Molina’s grass mouse with 33 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with 25 grams
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with 28 grams
- Big crested mastiff bat with 29 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus with 27 grams
Animals as big as a Southern bog lemming
Those animals grow as big as a Southern bog lemming:
- Northern hopping mouse with 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malayan water shrew with 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland thicket rat with 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with 10 cm (0′ 4″)