It is hard to guess what a Persian jird weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Persian jird (Meriones persicus) on average weights 108 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Persian jird is from the family Muridae (genus: Meriones). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Persian jirds have 5 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 Persian jird (Meriones persicus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.The Persian jird is about 6 inches (15 cm) long and has a brush-tipped tail that is slightly longer than the body. They are brown with white bellies.The Persian jird’s natural habitats are dry rocky hillsides with little vegetation and semi-desert areas. They find shelter in either small burrows or under overhanging rocks. These jirds can also be found living near humans, such as under walls.In the wild, Persian jirds eat dry plant material and grains, with small insects as a supplement.Persian jirds usually have two litters a year, each with around seven pups.Some people keep this species as a pet. They can live to be six or seven years old. They need large cages that allow climbing and leaping.The high abundance of Persian jird in many areas, as well as their several proper features, makes them a suitable species for biomonitoring programs (Khazaee et al. 2016).
Animals of the same family as a Persian jird
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Verreaux’s mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Lataste’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Beady-eyed mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Malagasy giant rat bringing 1.18 kilos (2.6 lbs) to the scale
- Plains rat with a weight of 53 grams
- Nephelomys albigularis with a weight of 60 grams
- Indian gerbil with a weight of 138 grams
- Mahomet mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster with 5 babies per litter
- Silver mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Persian jird
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Meriones persicus:
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Bramble Cay melomys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Bare-backed rousette bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Garden dormouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Miller’s mastiff bat bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Kimberley rock rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Giant kangaroo rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed tree rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Persian jird
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Persian jird: