How big does a Common gundi get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Common gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) reaches an average size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 289 grams (0.64 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 29 grams (0.06 lbs). A Common gundi has 2 babies at once. The Common gundi (genus: Ctenodactylus) is a member of the family Ctenodactylidae.
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 common gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae. It is found in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. The parasitic organism Toxoplasma gondii was first described in 1908 in Tunis by Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux within the tissues of the gundi.
Animals of the same family as a Common gundi
We found other animals of the Ctenodactylidae family:
- Speke’s pectinator with 1 babies per litter
- Mzab gundi with 2 babies per litter
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Felou gundi with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Common gundi
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common gundi:
- Mariana fruit bat with a size of 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northeast African mole-rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Saharan striped polecat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-haired rat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common gundi
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Common gundi:
- Cape gray mongoose
- Particolored flying squirrel
- Big-eared climbing rat
- Pampas cat
- Striped hyena
- Hinde’s rock rat
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Pygmy rock mouse
- Slender rat
Animals with the same weight as a Common gundi
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenodactylus gundi:
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Derby’s woolly opossum bringing 328 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Savile’s bandicoot rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- White-headed marmoset bringing 342 grams to the scale
- Fijian monkey-faced bat bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale