It is hard to guess what a Phillips’s gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Phillips’s gerbil (Gerbilliscus phillipsi) on average weights 127 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Phillips’s gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbilliscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Phillips’s gerbil (Gerbilliscus phillipsi) is a species of gerbil found in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Animals of the same family as a Phillips’s gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tamarisk jird with 4 babies per litter
- Chibchan water mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- White-toothed brush mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Emin’s pouched rat bringing 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) to the scale
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Chiriqui brown mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with a weight of 67 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Phillips’s gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbilliscus phillipsi:
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Guianan spear-nosed bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Giant roundleaf bat bringing 115 grams to the scale
- African marsh rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 109 grams to the scale
- Laminate vlei rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s bushbaby bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Chilean rock rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Phillips’s gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Phillips’s gerbil:
- Panamint chipmunk with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern red-sided opossum with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prairie vole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Marsh rice rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)