It is hard to guess what a Cheesman’s gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cheesman’s gerbil (Gerbillus cheesmani) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Cheesman’s gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Cheesman’s gerbils have 8 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.
Cheesman’s gerbil (Gerbilus cheesmani) is a small rodent in the subfamily Gerbillinae of the family Muridae. It is distributed mainly in Arabian Peninsula to southwestern Iran. It has orange-brown fur, white underparts, large eyes and a very long tail.
Animals of the same family as a Cheesman’s gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a weight of 31 grams
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a weight of 92 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Korean field mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Gleaning mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Unexpected cotton rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Oligoryzomys griseolus with a weight of 25 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cheesman’s gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus cheesmani:
- Winter white dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Akodon affinis bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 29 grams to the scale
- New Guinea free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Greater mouse-eared bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Western heather vole bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys alfaroi bringing 33 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Cheesman’s gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Cheesman’s gerbil: