How many baby Gerbil mouses are in a litter?
A Gerbil mouse (Malacothrix typica) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 26 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Malacothrix). An adult Gerbil mouse grows up to a size of 59.5 cm (2′ 0″).
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 gerbil mouse or long-eared mouse (Malacothrix typica) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, hot deserts, and temperate deserts.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Gerbil mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Musso’s fish-eating rat weighting only 40 grams
- Mindoro striped rat weighting only 152 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater Wilfred’s mouse weighting only 46 grams
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser ricefield rat weighting only 104 grams
- Flat-headed vole with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Brown deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northwestern deer mouse raching a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pleasant gerbil weighting only 13 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Gerbil mouse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Bank vole
- Botta’s pocket gopher
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec
- Barbary striped grass mouse
- Greater white-toothed shrew
- Senegal gerbil
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel
- Side-striped jackal
- Pale fox
Animals with the same weight as a Gerbil mouse
What other animals weight around 17 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Aztec mastiff bat weighting 14 grams
- Little yellow-shouldered bat weighting 20 grams
- Kilimanjaro shrew weighting 16 grams
- Nyika climbing mouse weighting 15 grams
- Little wood mouse weighting 14 grams
- Ruwenzori shrew weighting 18 grams
- Eurasian water shrew weighting 15 grams
- Therese’s shrew weighting 17 grams
- Western pygmy possum weighting 15 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat weighting 15 grams