How many baby Vinogradov’s jirds are in a litter?
A Vinogradov’s jird (Meriones vinogradovi) usually gives birth to around 7 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 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 Vinogradov’s jird grows up to a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Vinogradov’s jird (Meriones vinogradovi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Syria, and Turkey.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Vinogradov’s jird is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Spiny Ceram rat weighting only 306 grams
- Grey red-backed vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Large Japanese field mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Slender Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Shining thicket rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Puebla deer mouse weighting only 59 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Garlepp’s mouse weighting only 59 grams
- White-tailed rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Peruvian fish-eating rat weighting only 40 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Vinogradov’s jird
Those animals also give birth to 7 babies at once:
- Stolička’s mountain vole
- Swamp antechinus
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- Long-tailed planigale
- Red-tailed phascogale
- Sakhalin vole
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Mediterranean water shrew
- Drylands vesper mouse
- Steppe polecat
Animals that get as old as a Vinogradov’s jird
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.33 years:
- Southwestern water vole with 3.5 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with 3.08 years
- North African elephant shrew with 3 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with 2.83 years
- Gray tree rat with 3.75 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- Bush rat with 3.42 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with 2.83 years
- Japanese mountain mole with 3 years
- New Guinean quoll with 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Vinogradov’s jird
What other animals weight around 117 grams (0.26 lbs)?
- Big-eared swamp rat weighting 95 grams
- Malayan field rat weighting 119 grams
- Owl’s spiny rat weighting 114 grams
- Thomas’s bushbaby weighting 117 grams
- Greater Egyptian jerboa weighting 138 grams
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse weighting 100 grams
- Northern pocket gopher weighting 105 grams
- Kowari weighting 109 grams
- Black-tailed gerbil weighting 123 grams
- Southern African vlei rat weighting 114 grams
Animals with the same size as a Vinogradov’s jird
Also reaching around 15.5 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Giant kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- New Caledonia flying fox gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican deer mouse gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater hedgehog tenrec gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large vlei rat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)