It is hard to guess what a Emin’s gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Emin’s gerbil (Taterillus emini) on average weights 52 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Emin’s gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Taterillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Emin’s 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.
Emin’s gerbil or Emin’s tateril (Taterillus emini) is a species of gerbil found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and arable land.
Animals of the same family as a Emin’s gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Malayan tree rat with 2 babies per litter
- Northern mole vole with a weight of 40 grams
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens with a weight of 25 grams
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Vogelkop mountain rat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Charming thicket rat with a weight of 61 grams
- Holochilus brasiliensis with a weight of 155 grams
- Cape York rat with a weight of 200 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Emin’s gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Taterillus emini:
- Charming thicket rat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Bushveld elephant shrew bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Minor epauletted fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Mongolian gerbil bringing 57 grams to the scale
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Cerradomys subflavus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Southern marsupial mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Emin’s gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Emin’s gerbil: