How many baby Smoky pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys tylorhinus) 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 21.4 cm (0′ 9″).
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:
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher weighting only 172 grams
- Desert pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Chiriqui pocket gopher weighting only 650 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher weighting only 250 grams
- Southern pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Plains pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Central Texas pocket gopher raching a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting only 474 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Smoky pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo
- Hippopotamus
- Iberian ibex
- Barbary macaque
- Nabarlek
- California leaf-nosed bat
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Melck’s house bat
- White rhinoceros
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 403 grams (0.89 lbs)?
- European ground squirrel weighting 396 grams
- Southern African hedgehog weighting 337 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat weighting 445 grams
- Gilliard’s flying fox weighting 406 grams
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel weighting 479 grams
- European hamster weighting 429 grams
- Cuvier’s spiny rat weighting 339 grams
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat weighting 356 grams
- White-winged flying fox weighting 343 grams
- White-headed marmoset weighting 342 grams
Animals with the same size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Also reaching around 21.4 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Three-striped dasyure gets as big as 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky flying squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bulmer’s fruit bat gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Barbary ground squirrel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-headed African mole-rat gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tropical ground squirrel gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Perote ground squirrel gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)