It is hard to guess what a Alcorn’s pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Alcorn’s pocket gopher (Pappogeomys alcorni) on average weights 150 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Alcorn’s pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Pappogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 67.5 cm (2′ 3″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Alcorn’s pocket gopher (Pappogeomys alcorni) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is montane pine-oak forest (910-3,010 m) in the Sierra del Tigre of south Jalisco. It is reputed to damage corn and bean fields and has been persecuted by farmers as a pest. The species is considered to be critically endangered.
Animals of the same family as a Alcorn’s pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Darien pocket gopher with a weight of 437 grams
- Giant pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher with a weight of 250 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with a weight of 350 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Northern pocket gopher with a weight of 105 grams
- Big pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a weight of 136 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 420 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Alcorn’s pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pappogeomys alcorni:
- Amazonian marsh rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Little ground squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Bush rat bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Round-tailed ground squirrel bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Stein’s rat bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Isarog shrew-rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Three-striped ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Siberian flying squirrel bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Attwater’s pocket gopher bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Lesser stick-nest rat bringing 150 grams to the scale