How many baby Texas pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Texas pocket gopher (Geomys personatus) usually gives birth to around 3 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 Texas 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 Texas pocket gopher (Geomys personatus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Tamaulipas in Mexico and in Texas in the United States.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Texas pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Big pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Plains pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Camas pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting only 474 grams
- Mazama pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Darien pocket gopher weighting only 437 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Texas pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Mexican cottontail
- Red river hog
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse
- Malayan field rat
- Eastern pygmy possum
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Volcano harvest mouse
- Mazama pocket gopher
- Hispid hare
- Kaiser’s rock rat
Animals with the same weight as a Texas pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 397 grams (0.88 lbs)?
- Red-legged sun squirrel weighting 333 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat weighting 439 grams
- Russian desman weighting 420 grams
- Cuvier’s spiny rat weighting 339 grams
- Bolivian tuco-tuco weighting 462 grams
- European ground squirrel weighting 396 grams
- Desert hedgehog weighting 396 grams
- Golden-mantled tamarin weighting 385 grams
- Bagobo rat weighting 395 grams
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat weighting 356 grams
Animals with the same size as a Texas pocket gopher
Also reaching around 18.4 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Siberian flying squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-eared hedgehog gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tawitawi forest rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Summit rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Stoat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rajah spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mentawai squirrel gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)