How many baby Lesser Egyptian jerboas are in a litter?
A Lesser Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus jaculus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 33 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Dipodidae family (genus: Jaculus). An adult Lesser Egyptian jerboa grows up to a size of 10.2 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 lesser jerboa (Jaculus jaculus) is a small rodent of Africa and the Middle East.Its diet consists mainly of seeds and grasses, however the Jerboa needs very little water to survive.This small rodent is sometimes likened to a tiny kangaroo due to its incredibly large hind legs, and hopping form of locomotion. The lesser Egyptian jerboa has three toes on each of its hind feet and a very long tail, used for balance when jumping. It has large eyes and ears and a rather stubby snout, and its coat is a pale or dark sandy colour with a paler underside.
Other animals of the family Dipodidae
Lesser Egyptian jerboa is a member of the Dipodidae, as are these animals:
- Meadow jumping mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Altai birch mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Northern three-toed jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Pacific jumping mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Thick-tailed pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Euphrates jerboa with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Small five-toed jerboa with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lesser Egyptian jerboa
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Red river hog
- Cape York rat
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Juniper vole
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Greater cane rat
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
- Canyon mouse
- Yucatan deer mouse
- Little native mouse
Animals that get as old as a Lesser Egyptian jerboa
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- Indian gerbil with 7 years
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with 5.83 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Greater grison with 5.25 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with 5 years
- Eastern quoll with 6.75 years
- Bahamian hutia with 6 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with 5 years
- Pyrenean desman with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser Egyptian jerboa
What other animals weight around 59 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Günther’s vole weighting 50 grams
- Feather-tailed possum weighting 53 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat weighting 50 grams
- Smoky mouse weighting 68 grams
- Four-toed jerboa weighting 52 grams
- Boehm’s bush squirrel weighting 70 grams
- Townsend’s mole weighting 70 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat weighting 66 grams
- Southern big-eared mouse weighting 70 grams
- Flat-headed vole weighting 50 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lesser Egyptian jerboa
Also reaching around 10.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Musser’s shrew mouse gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow jumping mouse gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- California kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)