How big does a Southern bog lemming get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Southern bog lemming (Synaptomys cooperi) reaches an average size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 2.5 years, they grow from 3 grams (0.01 lbs) to 28 grams (0.06 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Southern bog lemmings have 3 babies about 2 times per year. The Southern bog lemming (genus: Synaptomys) 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 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
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Verreaux’s mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Pseudoryzomys with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pygmy gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transbaikal zokor with 3 babies per litter
- Large tree mouse with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Pleasant bolo mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Ethiopian thicket rat with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same size as a Southern bog lemming
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern bog lemming:
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least chipmunk with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Great fruit-eating bat with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser tree mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern bog lemming
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Southern bog lemming:
- Deroo’s mouse
- Striped hog-nosed skunk
- North American beaver
- Severtzov’s jerboa
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Dark-tailed tree rat
- Singing vole
- Allen’s wood mouse
- Texas mouse
- Greater cane rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southern bog lemming
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southern bog lemming:
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Fawn antechinus with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Etruscan shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Northern quoll with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Long-tailed giant rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern bog lemming
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Synaptomys cooperi:
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Hoary bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Yellow golden mole bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Intelligent grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- African yellow bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Gray-tailed vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat bringing 29 grams to the scale