It is hard to guess what a Robbins’s tateril weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Robbins’s tateril (Taterillus arenarius) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Robbins’s tateril is from the family Muridae (genus: Taterillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Robbins’s tateril (Taterillus arenarius) or the Sahel gerbil, is a species of gerbil found across Mauritania and possibly Mali and Niger. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Animals of the same family as a Robbins’s tateril
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with a weight of 59 grams
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ammodile with a weight of 50 grams
- Crab-eating rat with a weight of 66 grams
- Tropical vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Chestnut white-bellied rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Stein’s rat with a weight of 151 grams
- Japen rat with a weight of 380 grams
- Musso’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Robbins’s tateril
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Taterillus arenarius:
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Julia Creek dunnart bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Painted big-eared mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Pousargues African fat mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied tree mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Chaco grass mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed gerbil bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Mozambique thicket rat bringing 45 grams to the scale