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BankVole🐾

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SpeciesRodentiaCricetidae
Mammals

🐾Bank vole

Myodes glareolus (Schreber, 1780)

Ръждива (кафява) горска полевка (Myodes glareolus) е вид дребен бозайник от семейство Хомякови (Cricetidae).

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≈ 1/2,980th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
0.11 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
4.91 years
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Everything we know about the Bank vole

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.11 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
0.52 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
4.91 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.9 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
1.58 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
41 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
20 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 20 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.3AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
1,500 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bank vole yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familyCricetidae
  6. ›genusMyodes
  7. ›speciesMyodes glareolus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familyCricetidae
  4. subfamilyArvicolinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderMyomorpha
  13. familyCricetidae
  14. subfamilyArvicolinae
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants50%
seeds and grain30%
insects and other invertebrates20%
In other languages
klatremus (nb), Rötelmaus (de), Myodes glareolus (es), metsämyyrä (fi), Myodes glareolus (fr), Nornica ruda (pl) … and 23 more languages
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