It is hard to guess what a Shaw’s jird weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Shaw’s jird (Meriones shawi) on average weights 90 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Shaw’s jird is from the family Muridae (genus: Meriones). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Shaw’s jirds have 5 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.
Shaw’s jird (Meriones shawi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. Its natural habitats are arable land, pastureland, and rural gardens.They typically live 1–2 years.Shaw’s jird is able to survive long periods of dehydration in semi-desert regions where it lives, in part because of its well developed kidneys. During the rainy season, Shaw’s jirds breed more compared to summer when there is less rain.In the Algerian highlands, they are a main prey source for Barn owls.
Animals of the same family as a Shaw’s jird
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Andean leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 53 grams
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a weight of 194 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat with a weight of 88 grams
- Namaqua rock rat with a weight of 57 grams
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a weight of 34 grams
- White-throated grass mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Paramo Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Oecomys trinitatis with a weight of 73 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Shaw’s jird
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Meriones shawi:
- Long-eared chipmunk bringing 83 grams to the scale
- San Quintin kangaroo rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Bocage’s mole-rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Slender squirrel bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Pale leaf-eared mouse bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Goliath shrew bringing 87 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Shaw’s jird
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Shaw’s jird: