It is hard to guess what a Bushy-tailed jird weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bushy-tailed jird (Sekeetamys calurus) on average weights 56 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Bushy-tailed jird is from the family Muridae (genus: Sekeetamys). They can live for up to 5.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Bushy-tailed jirds 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 bushy-tailed jird or bushy-tailed dipodil (Sekeetamys calurus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Sekeetamys. It is found in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
Animals of the same family as a Bushy-tailed jird
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Golden mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Midday jird with 5 babies per litter
- Oldfield mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Hispid cotton rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Handleyomys chapmani with a weight of 49 grams
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 47 grams
- Cauca climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 100 grams
- Akodon boliviensis with a weight of 27 grams
- Deroo’s mouse with a weight of 32 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bushy-tailed jird
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sekeetamys calurus:
- Coast mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Greater noctule bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Hainan gymnure bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Melanomys zunigae bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s bonneted bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Bushy-tailed jird
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Bushy-tailed jird:
- Giant otter
- Selous’s mongoose
- Golden lion tamarin
- Champion’s tree mouse
- Island fox
- Guaira spiny rat
- Eastern gray squirrel
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- New Guinean jumping mouse
- Rock hyrax
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bushy-tailed jird
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bushy-tailed jird:
- Canyon bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Rakali with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Virginia opossum with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Silky pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- California ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years