How many baby Smoky pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys neglectus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Cratogeomys). An adult Smoky pocket gopher grows up to a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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 smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys fumosus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico (Querétaro). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. Molecular phylogenetics has revealed that this species also includes the animals formerly separated as C. gymnurus, C. neglectus, C. tylorhinus and C. zinseri.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Smoky pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Buller’s pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 599 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tropical pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Smoky pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Asinus
- White-bellied yellow bat
- Sloth bear
- Brazilian porcupine
- Silver dik-dik
- Common wallaroo
- Greater nectar bat
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Pennant’s colobus
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 302 grams (0.67 lbs)?
- Southern Plains woodrat weighting 255 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat weighting 243 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat weighting 301 grams
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum weighting 324 grams
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel weighting 300 grams
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel weighting 277 grams
- Japanese squirrel weighting 264 grams
- Cuvier’s spiny rat weighting 339 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting 296 grams
Animals with the same size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Also reaching around 19.2 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Southern African hedgehog gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Round-tailed ground squirrel gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pika gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Reddish tuco-tuco gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Speckled dasyure gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common dwarf mongoose gets as big as 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed weasel gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)