It is hard to guess what a Vinogradov’s jird weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Vinogradov’s jird (Meriones vinogradovi) on average weights 117 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Vinogradov’s jird is from the family Muridae (genus: Meriones). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 3.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.5 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Vinogradov’s jirds have 7 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.
Vinogradov’s jird (Meriones vinogradovi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Syria, and Turkey.
Animals of the same family as a Vinogradov’s jird
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per litter
- Chinese zokor with a weight of 257 grams
- Libyan jird with a weight of 91 grams
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Laminate vlei rat with a weight of 150 grams
- Cactus mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alston’s brown mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Least forest mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Mindomys with a weight of 60 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Vinogradov’s jird
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Meriones vinogradovi:
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 109 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Tete veld aethomys bringing 133 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Jaliscan cotton rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Isarog shrew-rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 121 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Vinogradov’s jird
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Vinogradov’s jird:
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland brush mouse with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Vinogradov’s jird
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Vinogradov’s jird:
- Red-tailed phascogale
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel
- Mediterranean water shrew
- Piute ground squirrel
- Prairie shrew
- Dibbler
- Pallas’s pika
- Common planigale
- Stripe-faced dunnart
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Vinogradov’s jird
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Vinogradov’s jird:
- Greater white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Lutrine opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Yellow-necked mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Günther’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Ooldea dunnart with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Gray tree rat with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Allen’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years