It is hard to guess what a Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus vallinus) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillurus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbils have 3 babies per litter.
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 bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus vallinus) is a species of gerbil found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate grassland, and hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- North African gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Wood lemming with a weight of 30 grams
- Cape gerbil with a weight of 92 grams
- Greater big-footed mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat with a weight of 32 grams
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 100 grams
- Earless water rat with a weight of 168 grams
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- European hamster with a weight of 429 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillurus vallinus:
- Sclater’s golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Chiapan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Graphiurus hueti bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Oecomys bicolor bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Dorothy’s slender opossum bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Ecuadorian grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Macroscelides proboscideus bringing 38 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil:
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hispid pocket mouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil: