It is hard to guess what a Balochistan gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Balochistan gerbil (Gerbillus nanus) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Balochistan gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.3 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Balochistan gerbils can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 Balochistan gerbil or dwarf gerbil (Gerbillus nanus), is distributed mainly from Morocco across north Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Middle East and western Asia. This is a common species with a wide distribution which faces no obvious threats, so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Balochistan gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Neuquén grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni with a weight of 24 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- Bryant’s woodrat with a weight of 182 grams
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat with a weight of 138 grams
- Jalapan pine vole with a weight of 40 grams
- Handleyomys melanotis with a weight of 50 grams
- Fat mouse with a weight of 34 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Balochistan gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus nanus:
- Long-tailed house bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- White-tailed dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Southern long-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Little yellow-shouldered bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Red tree vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Schreber’s yellow bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Nigerian shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Balochistan gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Balochistan gerbil:
- Pale shrew tenrec with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smoky shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-clawed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Balochistan gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Balochistan gerbil: