How big does a Balochistan gerbil get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Balochistan gerbil (Gerbillus nanus) reaches an average size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 25 grams (0.06 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Balochistan gerbils have 3 babies about 3 times per year. The Balochistan gerbil (genus: Gerbillus) is a member of the family Muridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Balochistan gerbil or dwarf gerbil (Gerbillus nanus), is distributed mainly from Morocco across north Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Middle East and western Asia. This is a common species with a wide distribution which faces no obvious threats, so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Balochistan gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Siberian brown lemming with 6 babies per litter
- Hinde’s rock rat with 2 babies per litter
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Highveld gerbil with 2 babies per litter
- Peters’s mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Microryzomys altissimus with a weight of 13 grams
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-footed water rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same size as a Balochistan gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Balochistan gerbil:
- American water shrew with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Panamint kangaroo rat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Balochistan gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Balochistan gerbil:
- Painted spiny pocket mouse
- Mountain pygmy possum
- Gambian pouched rat
- Mazama pocket gopher
- Polynesian rat
- Southern bog lemming
- Bicolored musk shrew
- True’s shrew mole
- California chipmunk
- Lesser dwarf shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Balochistan gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus nanus:
- Western heather vole bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Cheesman’s gerbil bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Serotine bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Andean vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Long-winged tomb bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Handley’s slender opossum bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Stripe-faced dunnart bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Railer bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Golden mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale