Yes! If well-tamed, these curious animals will love coming out of their cage and exploring with you--but be careful, that makes them sneaky escape artists as well!
If your rabbit is very tame, it's about the same but usually rabbits aren't as tame as gerbils So, most of the time a gerbil is more playful with humans and other gerbils.
It is likely your gerbil died of natural causes and the other one was just disposing of its body. It is not very nice to think on but makes a lot of sense in the wild as a dead body would just...
I have learned that gerbils and hamsters or any kind of rodent are very protective of their home and food. For example if you put two hamsters in a cage with one bowl of food and one of the hamsters...
Gerbils should always have another gerbil living with it, it provides a much more happier home if its got another gerbil to communicate with.
They get lonely and can sometimes die out of...