How many baby Great gerbils are in a litter?
A Great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 12 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 27 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rhombomys). An adult Great gerbil grows up to a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″).
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 great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a large gerbil found throughout much of Central Asia.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Great gerbil is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Southern big-eared mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed paramelomys raching a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Crafty vesper mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Mamore arboreal rice rat weighting only 62 grams
- Oligoryzomys arenalis weighting only 25 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting only 24 grams
- Arnhem Land rock rat weighting only 94 grams
- Andean gerbil mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat weighting only 84 grams
- Akodon boliviensis with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Great gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Least chipmunk
- Camas pocket gopher
- Lesser capybara
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
- Golden jackal
- Andean vesper mouse
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse
- Panamint chipmunk
Animals that get as old as a Great gerbil
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- Aders’s duiker with 4 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with 4 years
- Lesser mole-rat with 4.5 years
- Striped field mouse with 4 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 4 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 3.5 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 4.25 years