How many baby Southern pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Southern pocket gopher (Thomomys umbrinus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Geomyidae family (genus: Thomomys). An adult Southern 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 southern pocket gopher (Thomomys umbrinus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States, usually in high altitude grassland and shrubland. It feeds on plant material and has an extensive burrow above which is a large heap of earth on the surface of the ground.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Southern pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Baird’s pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Texas pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting only 474 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Botta’s pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Central Texas pocket gopher raching a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals that share a litter size with Southern pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Honey badger
- Red hocicudo
- Eastern long-eared bat
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
- Long-nosed bandicoot
- Northern yellow bat
- Nilgiri striped squirrel
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Moss-forest rat
Animals with the same weight as a Southern pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 126 grams (0.28 lbs)?
- Stein’s rat weighting 151 grams
- Spotted ground squirrel weighting 107 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby weighting 147 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat weighting 121 grams
- Kowari weighting 109 grams
- Laminate vlei rat weighting 150 grams
- Fraternal hill rat weighting 130 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 122 grams
- Northern palm squirrel weighting 102 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat weighting 106 grams