It is hard to guess what a Anderson’s gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Anderson’s gerbil (Gerbillus allenbyi) on average weights 31 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Anderson’s gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 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.
Anderson’s gerbil (Gerbillus andersoni) is a species of gerbils distributed from Tunisia to Israel. Their habitats and diets are similar to other gerbils. The gestation period is 20–22 days and the average litter size is four or five. The IUCN formerly listed the junior synonym Gerbillus allenbyi as vulnerable.
Animals of the same family as a Anderson’s gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tanezumi rat with a weight of 140 grams
- Hinde’s rock rat with a weight of 141 grams
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Oecomys cleberi with a weight of 73 grams
- Sonoran woodrat with a weight of 227 grams
- Yucatan deer mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Robert’s snow vole with 1 babies per litter
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Anderson’s gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus allenbyi:
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Deroo’s mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Theobald’s tomb bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Texas mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Geoxus valdivianus bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale