How many baby Greater Egyptian gerbils are in a litter?
A Greater Egyptian gerbil (Gerbillus pyramidum) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 5 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 15 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 22 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Gerbillus). An adult Greater Egyptian gerbil grows up to a size of 10.1 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 greater Egyptian gerbil (Gerbillus pyramidum) is a small rodent in the family Muridae. It is native to northern Africa where it inhabits sandy deserts, semi-arid areas and oases. It is a common species, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Greater Egyptian gerbil is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Nephelomys levipes weighting only 60 grams
- Silky mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Fossorial giant rat weighting only 168 grams
- Dalton’s mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy giant rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating rat weighting only 66 grams
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Southern mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Greater Egyptian gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Greater red musk shrew
- Forest dormouse
- Woodland thicket rat
- Southern flying squirrel
- Damaraland mole-rat
- Flat-headed shrew
- Asian house shrew
- Irenomys
- Western red-backed vole
- Graphiurus hueti
Animals that get as old as a Greater Egyptian gerbil
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8.17 years:
- Cape gray mongoose with 8.67 years
- Common kusimanse with 9 years
- European mole with 7 years
- Plains pocket gopher with 7.17 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 7.08 years
- White-throated woodrat with 7.67 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 8 years
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with 8 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 8 years
- Marbled polecat with 8.92 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater Egyptian gerbil
What other animals weight around 42 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Mole-like rice tenrec weighting 34 grams
- Bushveld elephant shrew weighting 48 grams
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel weighting 34 grams
- Brazilian slender opossum weighting 38 grams
- Macmillan’s thicket rat weighting 37 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting 49 grams
- Little collared fruit bat weighting 44 grams
- Brown mouse lemur weighting 48 grams
- Taiwan vole weighting 46 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart weighting 35 grams
Animals with the same size as a Greater Egyptian gerbil
Also reaching around 10.1 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Alpine chipmunk gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pousargues African fat mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rümmler’s brush mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied slender opossum gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- False water rat gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)