How many baby Wagner’s gerbils are in a litter?
A Wagner’s gerbil (Dipodillus dasyurus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 25 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Wagner’s gerbil grows up to a size of 8.3 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.
Wagner’s gerbil (Dipodillus dasyurus) is distributed mainly in the Nile Delta, the Sinai, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. It also referred to as the rough-tailed dipodil or Wadi Hof gerbil. They are solo, burrowing mammals that are nocturnally active.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Wagner’s gerbil is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Peters’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dolorous grass mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Fly River water rat raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pouched gerbil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat weighting only 85 grams
- Cape short-eared gerbil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Oldfield mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Australian swamp rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Savanna gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Wagner’s gerbil
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Alpine pika
- South American coati
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Stein’s rat
- Northern flying squirrel
- Gray-footed chipmunk
- Mesquite mouse
- American hog-nosed skunk
- Large-eared tenrec
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
Animals with the same weight as a Wagner’s gerbil
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Mediterranean pine vole weighting 22 grams
- Monito del monte weighting 25 grams
- Woodland vole weighting 26 grams
- California pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes weighting 29 grams
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse weighting 30 grams
- Chinese dormouse weighting 31 grams
- Forrest’s mouse weighting 23 grams
- Stirton’s deer mouse weighting 29 grams
- Yucatan deer mouse weighting 27 grams
Animals with the same size as a Wagner’s gerbil
Also reaching around 8.3 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Black-eared squirrel gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandstone false antechinus gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nubra pika gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smoky shrew gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sinaloan pocket mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)