How many baby Smoky pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Smoky pocket gopher (Pappogeomys neglectus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Pappogeomys). An adult Smoky pocket gopher grows up to a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys fumosus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico (Querétaro). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. Molecular phylogenetics has revealed that this species also includes the animals formerly separated as C. gymnurus, C. neglectus, C. tylorhinus and C. zinseri.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Smoky pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Southeastern pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Big pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting only 474 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher weighting only 172 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 600 grams
- Botta’s pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Smoky pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Egyptian fruit bat
- Klipspringer
- Gould’s long-eared bat
- Black-headed spider monkey
- Hoffmann’s rat
- Long-tongued fruit bat
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine
- Salt’s dik-dik
- Cuban solenodon
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 302 grams (0.67 lbs)?
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel weighting 291 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat weighting 291 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel weighting 333 grams
- Smoky flying squirrel weighting 251 grams
- Northern glider weighting 278 grams
- Chinese zokor weighting 256 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Hammer-headed bat weighting 336 grams
- Round-tailed muskrat weighting 265 grams
Animals with the same size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Also reaching around 19.2 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Sonoran woodrat gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Golden hamster gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guyenne spiny rat gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-throated woodrat gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-toothed mouse gets as big as 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ceram fruit bat gets as big as 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)