How many baby Hairy-footed gerbils are in a litter?
A Hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus paeba) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 26 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Gerbillurus). An adult Hairy-footed gerbil grows up to a size of 9.3 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 hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus paeba) is a species of gerbil found in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate shrubland, hot deserts, sandy shores, and urban areas.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Hairy-footed gerbil is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Eastern small-toothed rat weighting only 357 grams
- Rupp’s mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Notiomys weighting only 21 grams
- Anthony’s woodrat weighting only 195 grams
- Vinogradov’s jird with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Woodland Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Guadalcanal rat raching a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Silent grass mouse weighting only 39 grams
- Abrothrix andinus weighting only 18 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Hairy-footed gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Flat-headed shrew
- Large mole
- Alpine pine vole
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Pale kangaroo mouse
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa
- Woodland thicket rat
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
- Darien harvest mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-footed gerbil
What other animals weight around 25 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Louise’s spiny mouse weighting 20 grams
- Gracile shrew tenrec weighting 23 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat weighting 21 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri weighting 22 grams
- Winter white dwarf hamster weighting 30 grams
- Pacific jumping mouse weighting 27 grams
- Andean gerbil mouse weighting 28 grams
- Bolivian vesper mouse weighting 27 grams
- Common noctule weighting 28 grams
- Scolomys melanops weighting 26 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-footed gerbil
Also reaching around 9.3 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Western red-backed vole gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rümmler’s brush mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red tree vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least pygmy squirrel gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western shrew mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Great Basin pocket mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)