It is hard to guess what a Wagner’s gerbil weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wagner’s gerbil (Gerbillus dasyurus) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Wagner’s gerbil is from the family Muridae (genus: Gerbillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Wagner’s gerbils have 3 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.
Wagner’s gerbil (Dipodillus dasyurus) is distributed mainly in the Nile Delta, the Sinai, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. It also referred to as the rough-tailed dipodil or Wadi Hof gerbil. They are solo, burrowing mammals that are nocturnally active.
Animals of the same family as a Wagner’s gerbil
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a weight of 122 grams
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large vlei rat with a weight of 192 grams
- Venezuelan climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Neacomys spinosus with a weight of 19 grams
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a weight of 286 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Oecomys concolor with a weight of 54 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Wagner’s gerbil
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gerbillus dasyurus:
- Deroo’s mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Puno grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Intelligent grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s spiny mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Grant’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Black bonneted bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Woolly dormouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Wagner’s gerbil
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wagner’s gerbil:
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-clawed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-eared flying mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Wagner’s gerbil
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Wagner’s gerbil: