It is hard to guess what a Dune hairy-footed gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dune hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus tytonis) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Dune hairy-footed gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillurus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Dune hairy-footed gerbils have 4 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 dune hairy-footed gerbil, or the Namib dune gerbil (Gerbillurus tytonis) is a species of gerbil found only in Namibia. Its natural habitat is temperate desert where it lives in loose sand among sand dunes, feeding opportunistically on arthropods, seeds and green vegetation.
Animals of the same family as a Dune hairy-footed gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Squirrel-toothed rat with a weight of 511 grams
- Roraima mouse with a weight of 33 grams
- Kemp’s spiny mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Shining thicket rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a weight of 29 grams
- Montane wood mouse with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dune hairy-footed gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillurus tytonis:
- Lesser bulldog bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Smith’s vole bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Sandhill dunnart bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Ash-grey mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Brown antechinus bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dune 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 Dune hairy-footed gerbil:
- Red-tailed phascogale with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ash-grey mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican shrew with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern bog lemming with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Dune hairy-footed gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Dune hairy-footed gerbil: