It is hard to guess what a Common gundi weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) on average weights 289 grams (0.64 lbs).
The Common gundi is from the family Ctenodactylidae (genus: Ctenodactylus). It is usually born with about 29 grams (0.06 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.8 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Common gundis have 2 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The common gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae. It is found in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. The parasitic organism Toxoplasma gondii was first described in 1908 in Tunis by Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux within the tissues of the gundi.
Animals of the same family as a Common gundi
We found other animals of the Ctenodactylidae family:
- Speke’s pectinator with a weight of 169 grams
- Val’s gundi with a weight of 174 grams
- Felou gundi with a weight of 205 grams
- Mzab gundi with a weight of 194 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common gundi
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenodactylus gundi:
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- O’Connell’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Gray slender loris bringing 254 grams to the scale
- Napo spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Magellanic tuco-tuco bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Afghan pika bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Tate’s triok bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Uinta ground squirrel bringing 307 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common gundi
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common gundi:
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black jackrabbit with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Silky anteater with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-tailed giant rat with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-throated woodrat with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common gundi
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Common gundi: