It is hard to guess what a Indian desert jird weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Indian desert jird (Meriones hurrianae) on average weights 71 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Indian desert jird is from the family Muridae (genus: Meriones). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Indian desert jirds have 4 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 Indian desert jird or Indian desert gerbil (Meriones hurrianae) is a species of jird found mainly in the Thar Desert in India. Jirds are closely related to gerbils.
Animals of the same family as a Indian desert jird
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Lesser bamboo rat with a weight of 472 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Cape spiny mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Malagasy giant rat bringing 1.18 kilos (2.6 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow steppe lemming with a weight of 26 grams
- White-tailed antsangy with a weight of 205 grams
- White-tailed rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Bryant’s woodrat with a weight of 182 grams
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Mexican harvest mouse with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Indian desert jird
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Meriones hurrianae:
- Paramo Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Insular vole bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Oecomys flavicans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Durango chipmunk bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Bunny rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Crete spiny mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Guinea multimammate mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Indian desert jird
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Indian desert jird: