It is hard to guess what a Wagner’s gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wagner’s gerbil (Dipodillus dasyurus) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Wagner’s gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Dipodillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Wagner’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.
Wagner’s gerbil (Dipodillus dasyurus) is distributed mainly in the Nile Delta, the Sinai, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. It also referred to as the rough-tailed dipodil or Wadi Hof gerbil. They are solo, burrowing mammals that are nocturnally active.
Animals of the same family as a Wagner’s gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Puno grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Maxomys baeodon with a weight of 159 grams
- Field vole with a weight of 35 grams
- Pinyon mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Squirrel-toothed rat with a weight of 511 grams
- Spotted bolo mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Mexican woodrat with a weight of 203 grams
- Cochabamba grass mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Allen’s woodrat with a weight of 368 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Wagner’s gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodillus dasyurus:
- Northern yellow bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Barbary striped grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Winter white dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Handley’s slender opossum bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Tyler’s mouse opossum bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Smoky grass mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec bringing 22 grams to the scale
- New Guinea free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Agile antechinus bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Rümmler’s brush mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Wagner’s gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wagner’s gerbil:
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hoary bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale shrew tenrec with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Wagner’s gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Wagner’s gerbil: