It is hard to guess what a Euphrates jerboa weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Euphrates jerboa (Allactaga euphratica) on average weights 232 grams (0.51 lbs).
The Euphrates jerboa is from the family Dipodidae (genus: Allactaga). They can live for up to 4.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.4 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Euphrates jerboas have 5 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 Euphrates jerboa (Allactaga euphratica) is a rodent of the family Dipodidae and genus Allactaga. They are characteristically known as hopping rodents. They have been found in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and also occurs very marginally in southeastern Turkey. The Euphrates jerboa’s natural habitats are semi-deserts, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and hot deserts.
Animals of the same family as a Euphrates jerboa
We found other animals of the Dipodidae family:
- Blanford’s jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Four-toed jerboa with a weight of 52 grams
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with a weight of 59 grams
- Greater Egyptian jerboa with a weight of 138 grams
- Blanford’s jerboa with 4 babies per litter
- Great jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Northern birch mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Gobi jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Lesser fat-tailed jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Altai birch mouse with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Euphrates jerboa
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Allactaga euphratica:
- Large New Guinea spiny rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Temotu flying fox bringing 274 grams to the scale
- Straw-coloured fruit bat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Tate’s triok bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Mechow’s mole-rat bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Large vlei rat bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat bringing 218 grams to the scale
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Euphrates jerboa
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Euphrates jerboa:
- Kowari
- Caucasian snow vole
- Western quoll
- Daurian ground squirrel
- Tristram’s jird
- Southern red-backed vole
- Gansu shrew
- Cutch rat
- Olive grass mouse
- Lesser fat-tailed jerboa
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Euphrates jerboa
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Euphrates jerboa:
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Arctic lemming with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Black-footed tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years