It is hard to guess what a Ammodile weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ammodile (Ammodillus imbellis) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Ammodile is from the family Muridae (genus: Ammodillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The ammodile, walo or Somali gerbil (Ammodillus imbellis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Ammodillus. It is found in Ethiopia and Somalia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Ammodile
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Hinde’s rock rat with a weight of 141 grams
- Long-haired rat with a weight of 221 grams
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-throated woodrat with a weight of 208 grams
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- California mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Greater bandicoot rat with a weight of 583 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
- Namaqua rock rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Holochilus chacarius with a weight of 204 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ammodile
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ammodillus imbellis:
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Woolley’s false antechinus bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Shining thicket rat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Link rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Gould’s mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Champion’s tree mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ammodile
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ammodile:
- Alpine chipmunk with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least chipmunk with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern hopping mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese water shrew with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)