How many baby Cheesman’s gerbils are in a litter?
A Cheesman’s gerbil (Gerbillus cheesmani) usually gives birth to around 8 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: Gerbillus). An adult Cheesman’s gerbil grows up to a size of 9 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.
Cheesman’s gerbil (Gerbilus cheesmani) is a small rodent in the subfamily Gerbillinae of the family Muridae. It is distributed mainly in Arabian Peninsula to southwestern Iran. It has orange-brown fur, white underparts, large eyes and a very long tail.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Cheesman’s gerbil is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Mexican deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Slender Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Abrothrix andinus weighting only 18 grams
- Euryoryzomys lamia weighting only 60 grams
- Ethiopian thicket rat weighting only 36 grams
- Red hocicudo with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser hamster-rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Rock vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cheesman’s gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 8 babies at once:
- Golden hamster
- Narrow-headed vole
- Grayish mouse opossum
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
- Grayish mouse opossum
- Dusky antechinus
- Yellow-footed antechinus
- African wild dog
- Chestnut dunnart
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster
Animals with the same weight as a Cheesman’s gerbil
What other animals weight around 28 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- European free-tailed bat weighting 28 grams
- Brush mouse weighting 23 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 30 grams
- Monito del monte weighting 25 grams
- Long-winged tomb bat weighting 25 grams
- Scolomys melanops weighting 26 grams
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 28 grams
- Bibimys torresi weighting 28 grams
- Puno grass mouse weighting 30 grams
- Wagner’s gerbil weighting 27 grams