How big does a Northern red-backed vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Northern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys rutilus) reaches an average size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 19 grams (0.04 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 1 grams (0 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Northern red-backed voles have 5 babies about 4 times per year. The Northern red-backed vole (genus: Clethrionomys) 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 northern red-backed vole (Myodes rutilus) is a small slender vole found in Alaska, northern Canada, Scandinavia and northern Russia.
Animals of the same family as a Northern red-backed vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sundevall’s jird with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- White-eared cotton rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Day’s grass mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Heath mouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dalton’s mouse with 5 babies per litter
- Acacia rat with 3 babies per litter
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a Northern red-backed vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern red-backed vole:
- Mexican vole with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican volcano mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Steppe lemming with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern water rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aberdare mole shrew with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern red-backed vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Northern red-backed vole:
- Olive grass mouse
- Norway lemming
- Pilbara ningaui
- Narrow-nosed planigale
- Dark bolo mouse
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum
- Grey red-backed vole
- Coypu
- Asian garden dormouse
- Star-nosed mole
Animals with the same weight as a Northern red-backed vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Clethrionomys rutilus:
- Goldman’s nectar bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Drylands vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest blossom bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Javan slit-faced bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Velvety fruit-eating bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Fraser’s musk shrew bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Steppe field mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Railer bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Cactus mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale