It is hard to guess what a Senegal gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Senegal gerbil (Taterillus pygargus) on average weights 60 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Senegal gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Taterillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Senegal 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 Senegal gerbil or Senegal tateril (Taterillus pygargus) is a species of gerbil found in Niger, Senegal, possibly Gambia, possibly Mali, and possibly Mauritania. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, arable land, pastureland, and rural gardens.
Animals of the same family as a Senegal gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Pale field rat with a weight of 169 grams
- Subalpine woolly rat bringing 1.99 kilos (4.39 lbs) to the scale
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Maximowicz’s vole with 6 babies per litter
- Anthony’s woodrat with a weight of 195 grams
- Togo mouse with a weight of 55 grams
- Bogotá grass mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Nyika climbing mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same weight as a Senegal gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Taterillus pygargus:
- Handleyomys melanotis bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Cerradomys subflavus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s pouched mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Rupp’s mouse bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Melanomys robustulus bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Small five-toed jerboa bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Argentine hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys albigularis bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Cave nectar bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Angolan rousette bringing 67 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Senegal gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Senegal gerbil: