How many baby Botta’s pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Botta’s pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 8 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Thomomys). An adult Botta’s pocket gopher grows up to a size of 15.6 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.
Botta’s pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is a pocket gopher native to western North America. It is also known in some sources as valley pocket gopher, particularly in California. Both the specific and common names of this species honor Paul-Émile Botta, a naturalist and archaeologist who collected mammals in California in 1827 and 1828.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Botta’s pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desert pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Variable pocket gopher weighting only 615 grams
- Buller’s pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Mazama pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Botta’s pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Madras treeshrew
- Wolf
- Culpeo
- Red fox
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Groundhog
- Field vole
- Bush dog
- Lodgepole chipmunk
- Gray-tailed vole
Animals that get as old as a Botta’s pocket gopher
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4.5 years:
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with 5 years
- Euphrates jerboa with 4.17 years
- Western quoll with 5 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with 4 years
- Striped field mouse with 4 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with 5 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Botta’s pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 123 grams (0.27 lbs)?
- European water vole weighting 120 grams
- Dwarf flying fox weighting 122 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 107 grams
- Hinde’s rock rat weighting 141 grams
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel weighting 118 grams
- Yellow-haired hill rat weighting 111 grams
- Greater fairy armadillo weighting 129 grams
- African marsh rat weighting 128 grams
- White-tailed antelope squirrel weighting 104 grams
- Central rock rat weighting 100 grams
Animals with the same size as a Botta’s pocket gopher
Also reaching around 15.6 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Congo rope squirrel gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pyrenean desman gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Desert pocket gopher gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rossel Island melomys gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Somali hedgehog gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- San Martín Island woodrat gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)