How big does a Steppe pika get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla) reaches an average size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 4 years, they grow from 6 grams (0.01 lbs) to 143 grams (0.32 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Steppe pikas have 8 babies about 3 times per year. The Steppe pika (genus: Ochotona) is a member of the family Ochotonidae.
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 steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla) is a small mammal of the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is found in the steppes of south Russia and northern Kazakhstan.
Animals of the same family as a Steppe pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- American pika with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Collared pika with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian pika with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gansu pika with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chinese red pika with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Moupin pika with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Steppe pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Steppe pika:
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silky anteater with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mazama pocket gopher with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Brown mouse lemur with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Golden hamster with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Steppe pika
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Steppe pika:
- Dusky antechinus
- Cheesman’s gerbil
- Golden hamster
- Townsend’s ground squirrel
- Virginia opossum
- Taiga vole
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster
- European polecat
- Cinnamon antechinus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Steppe pika
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Steppe pika:
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Northern birch mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Kultarr with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Southern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Steppe pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona pusilla:
- Holochilus brasiliensis bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Island mouse bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Littledale’s whistling rat bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Isarog striped shrew-rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 164 grams to the scale