It is hard to guess what a Hairy-footed gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus paeba) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Hairy-footed gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillurus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Hairy-footed 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 hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus paeba) is a species of gerbil found in Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, temperate shrubland, hot deserts, sandy shores, and urban areas.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy-footed gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Alston’s cotton rat with a weight of 55 grams
- Big-eared climbing rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Darling Downs hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Inca Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dollman’s tree mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Hispid hocicudo with a weight of 36 grams
- Ivory Coast rat with a weight of 52 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 144 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-footed gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillurus paeba:
- White-bellied free-tailed bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Little yellow-shouldered bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Eastern heather vole bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Greater horseshoe bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Minute fruit bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Asian particolored bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-footed gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hairy-footed gerbil:
- Ash-grey mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spinifex hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Holland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hairy-footed gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Hairy-footed gerbil: