How many baby Desert pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Desert pocket gopher (Geomys arenarius) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 76 grams (0.17 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Geomys). An adult Desert pocket gopher grows up to a size of 17.2 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.
The desert pocket gopher (Geomys arenarius) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico and in Texas and New Mexico in the United States.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Desert pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 599 grams
- Botta’s pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Northern pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 600 grams
- Variable pocket gopher weighting only 615 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Darien pocket gopher weighting only 437 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Desert pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Large-eared pika
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Madras treeshrew
- Pale gerbil
- Beaded wood mouse
- Krebs’s fat mouse
- Greater stripe-backed shrew
- Japanese dormouse
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Delicate slender opossum
Animals with the same weight as a Desert pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 206 grams (0.45 lbs)?
- Large mosaic-tailed rat weighting 209 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 grams
- Palawan treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Long-tailed weasel weighting 191 grams
- Large vlei rat weighting 192 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 grams
- Speckled dasyure weighting 212 grams
- Holochilus chacarius weighting 204 grams
- Ochre mole-rat weighting 200 grams
- Kintampo rope squirrel weighting 186 grams
Animals with the same size as a Desert pocket gopher
Also reaching around 17.2 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ili pika gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ontong Java flying fox gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guam flying fox gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Collared pika gets as big as 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray tree rat gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)