It is hard to guess what a Least gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Least gerbil (Gerbillus pusillus) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Least gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.3 cm (0′ 3″).
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 least gerbil (Gerbillus pusillus) is distributed mainly in South Sudan, southwestern Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Animals of the same family as a Least gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat with a weight of 144 grams
- Woodland vole with a weight of 26 grams
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Golden-backed tree-rat with a weight of 294 grams
- Siberian brown lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Hooper’s mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Glacier rat with a weight of 64 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Least gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus pusillus:
- Northern caenolestid bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Smoky grass mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- São Paulo grass mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Agile gracile opossum bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Juliana’s golden mole bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Bibimys torresi bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Greater mouse-tailed bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale