How many baby Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbils are in a litter?
A Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus vallinus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Gerbillurus). An adult Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil grows up to a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 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 bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus vallinus) is a species of gerbil found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate grassland, and hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Melanomys zunigae weighting only 53 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat weighting only 90 grams
- White-footed mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Robbins’s tateril weighting only 47 grams
- Turkish hamster with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Bolivian big-eared mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dalton’s mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat raching a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-haired rat weighting only 221 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Woodland thicket rat
- Gray fox
- Handleyomys melanotis
- Deroo’s mouse
- Himalayan field rat
- Smoky white-toothed shrew
- Brush rabbit
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat
- Nimba otter shrew
- Zacatecan deer mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
What other animals weight around 35 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Soft grass mouse weighting 30 grams
- Andean gerbil mouse weighting 28 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec weighting 35 grams
- El Carrizo deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Olive montane mouse weighting 37 grams
- Naked-eared deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Dalton’s mouse weighting 35 grams
- Fawn hopping mouse weighting 34 grams
- Moupin pika weighting 35 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole weighting 42 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Also reaching around 9.8 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Chinese mole shrew gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common rock rat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood mouse gets as big as 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Irenomys gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cotton mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland jumping mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)