It is hard to guess what a Pale gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pale gerbil (Gerbillus perpallidus) on average weights 52 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Pale gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.3 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Pale 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 pale gerbil (Gerbillus perpallidus) is endemic to Egypt and is distributed mainly in the northwestern part of the country. It is also known as the pallid gerbil. The pale gerbil has pale orange fur, with white underparts, white forelimbs and white feet. The ears are unpigmented and the soles of the feet are haired, which is a characteristic of sand-dwelling gerbils.It averages 22 to 27 cm in length, and weights 26-49 g.
Animals of the same family as a Pale gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Brazilian arboreal mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Bibimys torresi with a weight of 28 grams
- African groove-toothed rat with a weight of 111 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Spinifex hopping mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Bush vlei rat with a weight of 102 grams
- Palawan spiny rat with a weight of 159 grams
- Soft grass mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pale gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus perpallidus:
- Antillean fruit-eating bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Black-bellied fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Grayish mouse opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Garlepp’s mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Lukolela swamp rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Little collared fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Oecomys concolor bringing 54 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Pale gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Pale gerbil: