How many baby Sundevall’s jirds are in a litter?
A Sundevall’s jird (Meriones crassus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 8 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Meriones). An adult Sundevall’s jird grows up to a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Sundevall’s jird (Meriones crassus) is a species of rodent in the family of Muridae. It is found in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Pakistan, Morocco, Niger, Palestine, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Western Sahara, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and possibly Mali. Its natural habitat is hot deserts.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Sundevall’s jird is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Tondano rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western New Guinea mountain rat raching a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Scolomys ucayalensis weighting only 26 grams
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Nephelomys auriventer weighting only 60 grams
- Oecomys bicolor with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Goldman’s woodrat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe field mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Great gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sundevall’s jird
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Visayan warty pig
- Little pocket mouse
- Shrew gymnure
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Allen’s chipmunk
- Sand cat
- Panamint chipmunk
- Long-tailed dunnart
- California pocket mouse
- Bat-eared fox
Animals that get as old as a Sundevall’s jird
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.58 years:
- Canyon bat with 6 years
- Hispid cotton rat with 5.17 years
- Saharan striped polecat with 5 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Cave nectar bat with 5 years
- Otter civet with 5 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with 5 years
- California ground squirrel with 5 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with 5.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sundevall’s jird
What other animals weight around 69 grams (0.15 lbs)?
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 82 grams
- Crab-eating rat weighting 66 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus weighting 71 grams
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 71 grams
- Nephelomys auriventer weighting 60 grams
- Target rat weighting 70 grams
- Great fruit-eating bat weighting 59 grams
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse weighting 75 grams
- Link rat weighting 57 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 73 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sundevall’s jird
Also reaching around 15 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Anthony’s woodrat gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy mouse lemur gets as big as 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Plateau pika gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hottentot golden mole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-nosed dasyure gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)