It is hard to guess what a Pygmy gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pygmy gerbil (Gerbillus henleyi) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Pygmy gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Pygmy 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 pygmy gerbil (Gerbillus henleyi) is distributed mainly in Algeria to Israel and the Arabian Peninsula. It is also known as Henley’s gerbil or pygmy dipodil. Gerbillus henleyi is a long-tailed small gerbil with a back coat that is dark grey-brown which has specific white spots, and the species has small upper molars. Gerbillus henleyi, like other species of the Genus Gerbillus, forage nocturnally and have mainly a plant based diet, and also depend on those dietary items for energy and water.
Animals of the same family as a Pygmy gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Japen rat with a weight of 380 grams
- Kemp’s gerbil with a weight of 101 grams
- Anthony’s woodrat with a weight of 195 grams
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 79 grams
- Great gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Molina’s grass mouse with a weight of 33 grams
- Hoffmann’s rat with 1 babies per litter
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse with a weight of 100 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus henleyi:
- Pale shrew tenrec bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris sylvestris bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Little brown bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Cave myotis bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Croslet horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Long-fingered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gambian slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Emilia’s gracile opossum bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Pygmy gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Pygmy gerbil: