It is hard to guess what a North African gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult North African gerbil (Dipodillus campestris) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The North African gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Dipodillus). 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:
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a weight of 19 grams
- Oligoryzomys microtis with a weight of 22 grams
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Balkan snow vole with a weight of 56 grams
- Peters’s climbing rat with a weight of 182 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Oecomys paricola with a weight of 73 grams
- Northern hopping mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a North African gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodillus campestris:
- Anderson’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Thespian grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Cheesman’s gerbil bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Kultarr bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Brown antechinus bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Pygmy mouse lemur bringing 31 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 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:
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s vole with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bornean water shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 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: