It is hard to guess what a Buller’s pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Buller’s pocket gopher (Pappogeomys bulleri) on average weights 150 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Buller’s pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Pappogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 67.5 cm (2′ 3″).
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.
Buller’s pocket gopher (Pappogeomys bulleri) is a species of gopher that is endemic to Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Buller’s pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 267 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 397 grams
- Darien pocket gopher with a weight of 437 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with a weight of 350 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with a weight of 650 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a weight of 105 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Buller’s pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pappogeomys bulleri:
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Bridges’s degu bringing 162 grams to the scale
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Small sun squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Ghost bat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- New Caledonia flying fox bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Pale field rat bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Stein’s rat bringing 151 grams to the scale