How many baby Hispid pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Hispid pocket gopher (Orthogeomys hispidus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 13 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Orthogeomys). An adult Hispid 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 hispid pocket gopher (Orthogeomys hispidus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Hispid pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Buller’s pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Desert pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 600 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 599 grams
- Southeastern pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hispid pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bahamian hutia
- Pygmy killer whale
- Japanese macaque
- Diana monkey
- Three-striped night monkey
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
- Malagasy giant rat
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- South Asian river dolphin
- Short-beaked echidna
Animals with the same weight as a Hispid pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 499 grams (1.1 lbs)?
- Gray-backed sportive lemur weighting 506 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox weighting 491 grams
- Darien pocket gopher weighting 437 grams
- Maués marmoset weighting 443 grams
- Short-tailed chinchilla weighting 500 grams
- Giant tree-rat weighting 584 grams
- Mauritian flying fox weighting 473 grams
- Mexican gray squirrel weighting 456 grams
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel weighting 500 grams