It is hard to guess what a Gorongoza gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gorongoza gerbil (Tatera inclusa) on average weights 119 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Gorongoza gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Tatera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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:
- Microryzomys minutus with a weight of 13 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- Rudd’s mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Gray leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 68 grams
- Jaliscan cotton rat with a weight of 120 grams
- Pale leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 102 grams
- Isarog shrew-rat with a weight of 122 grams
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Ungava collared lemming with a weight of 57 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gorongoza gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tatera inclusa:
- Bramble Cay melomys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Bush rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Amazonian marsh rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Guianan spear-nosed bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Spotted ground squirrel bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Common treeshrew bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 107 grams to the scale