How many baby Tropical pocket gophers are in a litter?
A Tropical pocket gopher (Geomys tropicalis) usually gives birth to around 4 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 Tropical pocket gopher grows up to a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″).
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 tropical pocket gopher (Geomys tropicalis) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico.Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Geomyidae
Tropical pocket gopher is a member of the Geomyidae, as are these animals:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 600 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Giant pocket gopher weighting only 499 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting only 599 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting only 150 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky pocket gopher with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desert pocket gopher with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mazama pocket gopher with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tropical pocket gopher
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse
- Geata mouse shrew
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster
- Cerradomys subflavus
- Dice’s cottontail
- El Carrizo deer mouse
- Greater hamster-rat
- Indian hedgehog
- California vole
- Ornate shrew
Animals that get as old as a Tropical pocket gopher
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- Eastern pygmy possum with 8 years
- Black-shouldered opossum with 7.83 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 8.17 years
- Slender mongoose with 6 years
- House mouse with 6 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Moonrat with 7 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with 6.75 years
- Greater bulldog bat with 5.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tropical pocket gopher
What other animals weight around 350 grams (0.77 lbs)?
- Wyoming ground squirrel weighting 325 grams
- Magdalena spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Aldabra flying fox weighting 309 grams
- Common yellow-toothed cavy weighting 387 grams
- Emperor tamarin weighting 409 grams
- Long-fingered triok weighting 370 grams
- Four-toed hedgehog weighting 311 grams
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting 296 grams
- Armored rat weighting 281 grams
- Mentawai squirrel weighting 296 grams
Animals with the same size as a Tropical pocket gopher
Also reaching around 17.2 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray mouse lemur gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mountain treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Silvery mole-rat gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Stein’s rat gets as big as 17.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Four-toed hedgehog gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)