It is hard to guess what a Fat-tailed gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fat-tailed gerbil (Pachyuromys duprasi) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Fat-tailed gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Pachyuromys). They can live for up to 4.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.22 meter (4′ 1″). Usually, Fat-tailed 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 fat-tailed gerbil (Pachyuromys duprasi), also called the duprasi gerbil, is a rodent belonging to subfamily Gerbillinae. It is the only member of the genus Pachyuromys. These rodents are the most docile species of the Gerbil subfamily. They have fluffy and soft fur. Fat-tailed gerbils have been available on the pet market for decades, but in the 21st century breeders can be hard to find. They are sometimes considered as pocket pets.Other common English names are: fat-tailed jird, fat-tailed rat, and beer mat gerbil. Names in other languages are: abu lya (أبو ليه) in Egyptian Arabic, and adhal alyan (عضل أليان) in Standard Arabic, souris à grosse queue (French), Fettschwanzrennmaus (German), fedthale mus (Danish), rasvahäntägerbiili (Finnish), and dikstaartgerbil (Dutch).
Animals of the same family as a Fat-tailed gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Long-nosed hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- Large Luzon forest rat with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Water vole (North America) with a weight of 92 grams
- Allen’s wood mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Geoxus valdivianus with a weight of 31 grams
- Pinyon mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Neacomys spinosus with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fat-tailed gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pachyuromys duprasi:
- Western mastiff bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Pseudoryzomys bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s vole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Pale-faced bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Least chipmunk bringing 42 grams to the scale
- White-ankled mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Fat-tailed gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Fat-tailed gerbil:
- Major’s pine vole
- Desert kangaroo rat
- Broad-footed mole
- Asian house shrew
- Eastern mole
- Handleyomys alfaroi
- Singing vole
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens
- Small Japanese mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Fat-tailed gerbil
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Fat-tailed gerbil:
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Aders’s duiker with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Paucident planigale with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Great Basin pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years