How many baby Southeastern pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Geomys). An adult Southeastern pocket gopher grows up to a size of 18.4 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 southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) is a species of pocket gopher that is native to the southeastern United States. It occurs in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, where it is the only pocket gopher.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Southeastern pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Buller’s pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Variable pocket gopher weighting only 615 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher weighting only 650 grams
- Mazama pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Darien pocket gopher weighting only 437 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Southeastern pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pygmy slow loris
- Black-headed spider monkey
- Southwestern myotis
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel
- Western gorilla
- Royal antelope
- Cape horseshoe bat
- Yellow-bellied glider
- Mountain gazelle
- Diana monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Southeastern pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 201 grams (0.44 lbs)?
- Peleng tarsier weighting 165 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat weighting 215 grams
- Lesser mole-rat weighting 189 grams
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat weighting 178 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat weighting 226 grams
- Eastern rat weighting 230 grams
- Large treeshrew weighting 182 grams
- Island mouse weighting 164 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat weighting 164 grams
- Annandale’s rat weighting 197 grams