It is hard to guess what a Kemp’s gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kemp’s gerbil (Tatera kempi) on average weights 101 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Kemp’s gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Tatera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Kemp’s gerbils have 3 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.
Kemp’s gerbil (Gerbilliscus kempi) is a species of gerbil found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and possibly Liberia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, arable land, and pastureland.
Animals of the same family as a Kemp’s gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Brush mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Oligoryzomys microtis with a weight of 22 grams
- Northern mole vole with a weight of 40 grams
- Acacia rat with a weight of 77 grams
- Rupp’s mouse with a weight of 48 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with a weight of 95 grams
- Hairy-footed gerbil with a weight of 25 grams
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Greater big-footed mouse with a weight of 55 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Kemp’s gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tatera kempi:
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s tarsier bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Pink fairy armadillo bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Sage’s rock rat bringing 96 grams to the scale
- Malayan mountain spiny rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Kemp’s gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Kemp’s gerbil: