How big does a Père David’s vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Père David’s vole (Eothenomys melanogaster) reaches an average size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 19 grams (0.04 lbs). A Père David’s vole has 1 babies at once. The Père David’s vole (genus: Eothenomys) 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.
Père David’s vole (Eothenomys melanogaster) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in China, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Thailand. This species is a member of the melanogaster group, one of the two main groups of Eothenomys voles. Its dorsal pelage is dark brown, often nearly black, and the ventral pelage is gray, sometimes brown. The tail is shorter than the body. This species is found in pine/rhododendron forests.
Animals of the same family as a Père David’s vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Wood mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pygmy gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican water mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per litter
- Middle East blind mole-rat with 3 babies per litter
- Sagebrush vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bushy-tailed jird with 2 babies per litter
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli with a weight of 62 grams
Animals with the same size as a Père David’s vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Père David’s vole:
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Incan caenolestid with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Père David’s vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Père David’s vole:
- Javan slit-faced bat
- Mongoose lemur
- Bushveld elephant shrew
- Oecomys concolor
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Atlantic titi
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
- Grey rhebok
- Tana River red colobus
Animals with the same weight as a Père David’s vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eothenomys melanogaster:
- Nigerian free-tailed bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Least pygmy squirrel bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Brazilian big-eyed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Sinaloan pocket mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Chinese mole shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Colombian forest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- House mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale