How many baby Euphrates jerboas are in a litter?
A Euphrates jerboa (Allactaga euphratica) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 13 kg (28.66 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dipodidae family (genus: Allactaga). An adult Euphrates jerboa grows up to a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 4″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Euphrates jerboa (Allactaga euphratica) is a rodent of the family Dipodidae and genus Allactaga. They are characteristically known as hopping rodents. They have been found in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and also occurs very marginally in southeastern Turkey. The Euphrates jerboa’s natural habitats are semi-deserts, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and hot deserts.
Other animals of the family Dipodidae
Euphrates jerboa is a member of the Dipodidae, as are these animals:
- Comb-toed jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Severtzov’s jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Woodland jumping mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western jumping mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gobi jerboa with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Euphrates jerboa
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Garden dormouse
- Kultarr
- Royle’s mountain vole
- Northern grass mouse
- Pilbara ningaui
- Western jumping mouse
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa
- Shaw’s jird
Animals that get as old as a Euphrates jerboa
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4.17 years:
- Long-legged myotis with 4.25 years
- Desert hedgehog with 4.5 years
- Paucident planigale with 5 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 4 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with 4 years
- Silky pocket mouse with 5 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with 4 years
- Southern brown bandicoot with 3.75 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with 4.83 years
- Acacia rat with 3.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Euphrates jerboa
What other animals weight around 232 grams (0.51 lbs)?
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Pteropus brunneus weighting 200 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat weighting 226 grams
- Ear-spot squirrel weighting 209 grams
- Maule tuco-tuco weighting 235 grams
- Black-shouldered opossum weighting 258 grams
- Rodrigues flying fox weighting 256 grams
- Long-haired rat weighting 221 grams
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel weighting 227 grams
- Holochilus chacarius weighting 204 grams