How big does a Montane vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Montane vole (Microtus montanus) reaches an average size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 42 grams (0.09 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 3 grams (0.01 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Montane voles have 5 babies about 4 times per year. The Montane vole (genus: Microtus) is a member of the family Muridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The montane vole (Microtus montanus) is a species of vole native to the western United States and Canada.
Animals of the same family as a Montane vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ethiopian thicket rat with a weight of 36 grams
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hoffmann’s rat with 1 babies per litter
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-tailed antsangy with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hairy harvest mouse with 3 babies per litter
- South African pouched mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pleasant bolo mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same size as a Montane vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Montane vole:
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Madagascan rousette with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian slender opossum with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Highland brush mouse with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sculptor squirrel with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Transandinomys bolivaris with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Montane vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Montane vole:
- Paucident planigale
- Piebald shrew
- Olive grass mouse
- Pacific jumping mouse
- Variegated squirrel
- Ural field mouse
- Smoky shrew
- Corsac fox
- Four-striped grass mouse
- Little Indian field mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Montane vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus montanus:
- Spotted bolo mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Yellow-footed antechinus bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Great roundleaf bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Defua rat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Mexican water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- False water rat bringing 45 grams to the scale