How many baby Attwater’s pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Attwater’s pocket gopher (Geomys attwateri) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 674 grams (1.49 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Geomys). An adult Attwater’s pocket gopher grows up to a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Attwater’s pocket gopher (Geomys attwateri) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to the Texas Coastal Bend in the southcentral United States.This species was named in honor of English naturalist Henry Philemon Attwater.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Attwater’s pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 599 grams
- Botta’s pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Variable pocket gopher weighting only 615 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Buller’s pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Attwater’s pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tricolored bat
- Bearded seal
- Northern nail-tail wallaby
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Dama gazelle
- Giant bandicoot
- Sooty mangabey
- Arabian oryx
- Bonnet macaque
- Sambar deer
Animals with the same weight as a Attwater’s pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 144 grams (0.32 lbs)?
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting 165 grams
- Striped bush squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew weighting 124 grams
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat weighting 116 grams
- Stein’s rat weighting 151 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 121 grams
- Sula rat weighting 131 grams
- Western nesomys weighting 155 grams
- Sado mole weighting 131 grams
- Dent’s vlei rat weighting 120 grams
Animals with the same size as a Attwater’s pocket gopher
Also reaching around 15.3 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Lesser hamster-rat gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ladak pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- One-striped opossum gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sundevall’s jird gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)