How many baby Indian gerbils are in a litter?
A Indian gerbil (Tatera indica) 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 25 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Tatera). An adult Indian gerbil grows up to a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Indian gerbil (Tatera indica) also known as “antelope rat”, is a species of gerbil in the family Muridae.It is found in southern Asia from Syria to Bangladesh.It is the only species in the genus Tatera. Members of the genus Gerbilliscus have historically been placed in Tatera.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Indian gerbil is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse weighting only 75 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse weighting only 41 grams
- Big-eared hopping mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse weighting only 26 grams
- Ricefield rat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Greater stick-nest rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pale gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Darien harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Indian gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Large New Guinea spiny rat
- Northern bog lemming
- European mink
- Tropical pocket gopher
- Caucasian squirrel
- Culpeo
- Lesser capybara
- Parantechinus bilarni
- Red squirrel
- Giant forest hog
Animals that get as old as a Indian gerbil
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- Coruro with 6 years
- Gray short-tailed opossum with 6 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with 5.67 years
- Island fox with 8 years
- Jamaican coney with 8.25 years
- Little pocket mouse with 8.25 years
- Gray dorcopsis with 8 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 8 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with 8 years
- Tropical pocket gopher with 7 years
Animals with the same weight as a Indian gerbil
What other animals weight around 138 grams (0.3 lbs)?
- Sanborn’s squirrel weighting 136 grams
- Bolivian chinchilla rat weighting 158 grams
- Pygmy ringtail possum weighting 152 grams
- Edible dormouse weighting 128 grams
- Sula rat weighting 131 grams
- Phillips’s gerbil weighting 127 grams
- Brants’s whistling rat weighting 129 grams
- Fraternal hill rat weighting 130 grams
- Broad-toothed mouse weighting 129 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat weighting 132 grams