How many baby Mazama pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Thomomys). An adult Mazama pocket gopher grows up to a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama) is a smooth-toothed pocket gopher restricted to the Pacific Northwest. The species ranges from coastal Washington, through Oregon, and into north-central California.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Mazama pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Baird’s pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Darien pocket gopher weighting only 437 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chiriqui pocket gopher weighting only 650 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Underwood’s pocket gopher weighting only 250 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting only 474 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Mazama pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Alpine pine vole
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel
- Coast mole
- Water deer
- Yellow-throated marten
- Chestnut climbing mouse
- Yucatan deer mouse
- Nine-banded armadillo
- Molina’s grass mouse
- Hoary fox
Animals with the same weight as a Mazama pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 93 grams (0.21 lbs)?
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat weighting 93 grams
- Slender Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Durango chipmunk weighting 85 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat weighting 78 grams
- Diminutive woodrat weighting 80 grams
- Highveld gerbil weighting 89 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- Pará spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat weighting 78 grams
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse weighting 111 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mazama pocket gopher
Also reaching around 14.5 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern water rat gets as big as 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nimba otter shrew gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cape elephant shrew gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Siberian flying squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sugar glider gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern flying squirrel gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)