It is hard to guess what a North African gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult North African gerbil (Gerbillus campestris) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The North African gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, North African 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 North African gerbil (Dipodillus campestris) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in North Africa where its natural habitats are arable land and rocky areas of the Maghreb, and hot Saharan deserts.
Animals of the same family as a North African gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Short-haired water rat with a weight of 33 grams
- Savanna gerbil with a weight of 121 grams
- Southern climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Highveld gerbil with a weight of 89 grams
- True’s vole with a weight of 22 grams
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse with a weight of 100 grams
- Black rat with a weight of 142 grams
- Taiwan field mouse with a weight of 25 grams
- Inca Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 49 grams
Animals with the same weight as a North African gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus campestris:
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Akodon spegazzinii bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Akodon azarae bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Ugandan musk shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Narrow-headed slender opossum bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Bastard big-footed mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Parantechinus bilarni bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Sagebrush vole bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a North African gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as North African gerbil:
- Steppe lemming with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern three-striped opossum with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- African giant shrew with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a North African gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a North African gerbil: