It is hard to guess what a Namib brush-tailed gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Namib brush-tailed gerbil (Gerbillurus setzeri) on average weights 38 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Namib brush-tailed 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 10.5 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 Namib brush-tailed gerbil or Setzer’s hairy-footed gerbil (Gerbillurus setzeri) is a species of gerbil endemic to Angola and Namibia. Its natural habitats are sandy and gravelly plains. It stays in its burrow by day, emerging at night to feed on arthropods, vegetable matter, and seeds.
Animals of the same family as a Namib brush-tailed gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Least gerbil with a weight of 26 grams
- Angular hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Bushveld gerbil with a weight of 73 grams
- Taiwan field mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a weight of 42 grams
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat with a weight of 84 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a weight of 745 grams
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Bismarck giant rat with a weight of 613 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Namib brush-tailed gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillurus setzeri:
- Greater Egyptian gerbil bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Day’s grass mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Nayarit mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Smith’s vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Japanese water shrew bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Little collared fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Aztec mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Woodland thicket rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Namib brush-tailed gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Namib brush-tailed gerbil:
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- California kangaroo rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky hopping mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common rock rat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)