It is hard to guess what a Lesser Egyptian gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser Egyptian gerbil (Gerbillus gerbillus) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Lesser Egyptian gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Lesser Egyptian gerbils have 4 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 lesser Egyptian gerbil (Gerbillus gerbillus) is a small species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is native to North Africa and the Sinai Peninsula, where it lives in sandy habitats. It is a common species, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser Egyptian gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Link rat with a weight of 57 grams
- Western shrew mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Carpentarian rock rat with a weight of 123 grams
- Robbins’s tateril with a weight of 47 grams
- Kaiser’s rock rat with a weight of 90 grams
- JunÃn grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Little Indian field mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Siberian brown lemming with a weight of 58 grams
- Tawny deer mouse with a weight of 40 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser Egyptian gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus gerbillus:
- Flat-haired mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Olrog’s chaco mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s chaco mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Japanese mountain mole bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys andinus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser Egyptian gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Lesser Egyptian gerbil: