What is the maximal age a Wood lemming reaches?
An adult Wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) usually gets as old as 1 years.
Wood lemmings are around 23 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Muridae family (genus: Myopus), a Wood lemming caries out around 5 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″).
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 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
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Muridae):
- Mindoro striped rat bringing the scale to 152 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing the scale to 41 grams
- Neacomys spinosus bringing the scale to 19 grams
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat bringing the scale to 47 grams
- Pleasant bolo mouse bringing the scale to 27 grams
- Long-tailed mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Isabel naked-tailed rat getting as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Beaded wood mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Spiny Ceram rat bringing the scale to 306 grams
- Lowland brush mouse getting as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals that reach the same age as Wood lemming
With an average age of 1 years, Wood lemming are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Olive grass mouse usually reaching 1 years
- Meadow vole usually reaching 0.92 years
- Crowned shrew usually reaching 1.08 years
- Myosorex varius usually reaching 1 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew usually reaching 1.08 years
- Hottentot golden mole usually reaching 1 years
- Olive grass mouse usually reaching 1 years
- Yellow-sided opossum usually reaching 1 years
- Northern red-sided opossum usually reaching 1 years
Animals with the same number of babies Wood lemming
The same number of babies at once (5) are born by:
- Star-nosed mole
- Sagebrush vole
- Long-tailed pocket mouse
- Middendorf’s vole
- American water shrew
- Common degu
- Grey red-backed vole
- Winter white dwarf hamster
- Red wolf
- Arctic hare
Weighting as much as Wood lemming
A fully grown Wood lemming reaches around 30 grams (0.07 lbs). So do these animals:
- African yellow bat with 25 grams
- Southern African spiny mouse with 26 grams
- Abrothrix jelskii with 34 grams
- Yellow golden mole with 24 grams
- Cinnamon dog-faced bat with 35 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with 36 grams
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat with 25 grams
- Fawn hopping mouse with 34 grams
- Hairy-legged vampire bat with 28 grams
- Gleaning mouse with 35 grams