It is hard to guess what a Gorongoza gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gorongoza gerbil (Gerbilliscus inclusus) on average weights 118 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Gorongoza gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbilliscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Gorongoza gerbil (Gerbilliscus inclusus) is a species of gerbil found in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Gorongoza gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Alston’s cotton rat with a weight of 55 grams
- Caucasian snow vole with 5 babies per litter
- True’s vole with a weight of 22 grams
- Pygmy gerbil with a weight of 8 grams
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Slender Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse with a weight of 26 grams
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a weight of 28 grams
- Gray leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Fat-tailed gerbil with a weight of 47 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gorongoza gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbilliscus inclusus:
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Vinogradov’s jird bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Green bush squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Fraternal hill rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Amazonian marsh rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Sanborn’s squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Alston’s mouse opossum bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 109 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gorongoza gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gorongoza gerbil:
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bramble Cay melomys with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Durango chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Congo rope squirrel with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ochre bush squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)