It is hard to guess what a Tristram’s jird weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tristram’s jird (Meriones tristrami) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Tristram’s jird is from the family Muridae (genus: Meriones). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Tristram’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.
Meriones tristrami, known as Tristram’s jird, is a species of gerbil that lives in the Middle East. It is named after the Reverend Henry Baker Tristram who collected the first specimens. It is up to 155 mm (6.1 in) long, and lives in burrows in steppes and semi-deserts from Turkey and the Caucasus to Israel and Iran. Records from the Greek island of Kos represent the only gerbils reported from Europe, outside the former Soviet Union. It is a common, widespread species, and is not considered to be threatened.
Animals of the same family as a Tristram’s jird
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Ammodile with a weight of 50 grams
- Pygmy gerbil with a weight of 8 grams
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater hamster-rat with 4 babies per litter
- Acacia rat with a weight of 77 grams
- Allen’s woodrat with a weight of 368 grams
- Chibchan water mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Transandinomys talamancae with a weight of 54 grams
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat with a weight of 144 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat with a weight of 90 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tristram’s jird
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Meriones tristrami:
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Candango mouse bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Brooke’s squirrel bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Roman mole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Pygmy marmoset bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Magdalena rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Shaw’s jird bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Miller’s mastiff bat bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Angoni vlei rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Tristram’s jird
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Tristram’s jird: