How many baby North African gerbils are in a litter?
A North African gerbil (Gerbillus campestris) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Gerbillus). 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:
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray spiny mouse raching a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse weighting only 18 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Melanomys caliginosus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crafty vesper mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Brazilian shrew mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bryant’s woodrat weighting only 182 grams
- Large vesper mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian arboreal mouse weighting only 21 grams
Animals that share a litter size with North African gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil
- Northern collared lemming
- Indian bush rat
- Zygodontomys brevicauda
- Transcaucasian mole vole
- Utah prairie dog
- Tondano rat
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
- California pocket mouse
Animals with the same weight as a North African gerbil
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster weighting 27 grams
- Woodland vole weighting 26 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 30 grams
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat weighting 26 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Yucatan deer mouse weighting 27 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus weighting 25 grams
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse weighting 31 grams
- Schreber’s yellow bat weighting 26 grams
- White-throated round-eared bat weighting 32 grams
Animals with the same size as a North African gerbil
Also reaching around 9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Southern red-sided opossum gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big-eared woolly bat gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow jumping mouse gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Monito del monte gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)