It is hard to guess what a Northern three-toed jerboa weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern three-toed jerboa (Dipus sagitta) on average weights 89 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Northern three-toed jerboa is from the family Dipodidae (genus: Dipus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.6 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Northern three-toed jerboas can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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 northern three-toed jerboa (Dipus sagitta) is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is monotypic within the genus Dipus.It ranges across Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, China and Mongolia. A common species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature rates it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Northern three-toed jerboa
We found other animals of the Dipodidae family:
- Altai birch mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Blanford’s jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Comb-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Thick-tailed pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Meadow jumping mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Northern birch mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Four-toed jerboa with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern three-toed jerboa
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipus sagitta:
- Gregarious short-tailed rat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Pale leaf-eared mouse bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Ochre bush squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Bartels’s spiny rat bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Darling Downs hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Dayak fruit bat bringing 81 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern three-toed jerboa
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Northern three-toed jerboa: