It is hard to guess what a Pleasant gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pleasant gerbil (Gerbillus amoenus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Pleasant gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 cm (0′ 4″).
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 pleasant gerbil (Gerbillus amoenus) is a species of gerbil found mainly in Libya and Egypt, and possibly Mauritania to Tunisia. This species is about 6 cm in body length, with a brown agouti-style coat, a white belly and a very long tail. It is also known as the charming dipodil.
Animals of the same family as a Pleasant gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Shaw’s jird with a weight of 90 grams
- Melanomys zunigae with a weight of 53 grams
- Silver mountain vole with a weight of 37 grams
- Mesquite mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 210 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse with a weight of 41 grams
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a weight of 42 grams
- Oryzomys couesi with a weight of 69 grams
- De Vis’s woolly rat bringing 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs) to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pleasant gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus amoenus:
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Tropical big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Western bent-winged bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Golden bat bringing 12 grams to the scale