How big does a Val’s gundi get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Val’s gundi (Ctenodactylus vali) reaches an average size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 5 years, they grow from 18 grams (0.04 lbs) to 174 grams (0.38 lbs). A Val’s gundi has 2 babies at once. The Val’s gundi (genus: Ctenodactylus) is a member of the family Ctenodactylidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
Val’s gundi (Ctenodactylus vali) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae. It is known from two widely separated areas of North Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Val’s gundi
We found other animals of the Ctenodactylidae family:
- Felou gundi with 1 babies per litter
- Speke’s pectinator with 1 babies per litter
- Common gundi with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mzab gundi with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Val’s gundi
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Val’s gundi:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Whiskered flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Val’s gundi
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Val’s gundi:
- Long-nosed echymipera
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Asian particolored bat
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Honey possum
- Hoary bat
- Japanese house bat
- Western gray squirrel
- Southern African spiny mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Val’s gundi
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Val’s gundi:
- Gray short-tailed opossum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Yellow-necked mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Slender mongoose with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Silky pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Val’s gundi
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ctenodactylus vali:
- Long-tailed spiny rat bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat bringing 178 grams to the scale
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Long-footed treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Nicobar treeshrew bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Earless water rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco bringing 202 grams to the scale