It is hard to guess what a Savanna gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Savanna gerbil (Tatera valida) on average weights 121 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Savanna gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Tatera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Savanna gerbils can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 savanna gerbil (Gerbilliscus validus) is a species of gerbil found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, and arable land.
Animals of the same family as a Savanna gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Southern red-backed vole with a weight of 19 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Ciscaucasian hamster with 9 babies per litter
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Australian swamp rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Golden spiny mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Notiomys with a weight of 21 grams
- Long-tailed giant rat with a weight of 349 grams
- Tumbala climbing rat with a weight of 280 grams
- Gray tree rat with a weight of 150 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Savanna gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tatera valida:
- Tristram’s jird bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Damaraland mole-rat bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Greater tree mouse bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Southern pocket gopher bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew bringing 124 grams to the scale
- New Guinean rat bringing 133 grams to the scale
- Buller’s chipmunk bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Red-crested tree-rat bringing 145 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Savanna gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Savanna gerbil: