How many baby North African gerbils are in a litter?
A North African gerbil (Dipodillus campestris) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Dipodillus). An adult North African gerbil grows up to a size of 9 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 North African gerbil (Dipodillus campestris) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in North Africa where its natural habitats are arable land and rocky areas of the Maghreb, and hot Saharan deserts.
Other animals of the family Muridae
North African gerbil is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting only 79 grams
- Hispid cotton rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Brown rat with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat weighting only 85 grams
- Chiruromys lamia with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Crafty vesper mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Melanomys caliginosus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with North African gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Red-tailed chipmunk
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec
- Field vole
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum
- African pygmy mouse
- Red fox
- Ornate shrew
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat
Animals with the same weight as a North African gerbil
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Somali elephant shrew weighting 32 grams
- Deroo’s mouse weighting 32 grams
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus weighting 25 grams
- Bibimys torresi weighting 28 grams
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse weighting 31 grams
- Gray-tailed vole weighting 29 grams
- Bastard big-footed mouse weighting 28 grams
- Southern long-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Common sheath-tailed bat weighting 30 grams
- Grant’s golden mole weighting 22 grams
Animals with the same size as a North African gerbil
Also reaching around 9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Cyclops roundleaf bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nelson’s pocket mouse gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cactus mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Incan caenolestid gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red tree vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- African giant shrew gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lined pocket mouse gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)