It is hard to guess what a Big pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big pocket gopher (Orthogeomys lanius) on average weights 499 grams (1.1 lbs).
The Big pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Orthogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 41.9 cm (1′ 5″).
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.
The big pocket gopher (Orthogeomys lanius) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae.It is endemic to Veracruz state in eastern Mexico. It has only been found on the southeastern slopes of Pico de Orizaba, at elevations of 1,300 metres (4,300 ft).
Animals of the same family as a Big pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Underwood’s pocket gopher with a weight of 250 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 266 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with a weight of 350 grams
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 599 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Plains pocket gopher with a weight of 179 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Orthogeomys lanius:
- Checkered elephant shrew bringing 424 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Greater bandicoot rat bringing 583 grams to the scale
- Golden-headed lion tamarin bringing 573 grams to the scale
- Slender mongoose bringing 530 grams to the scale
- Golden lion tamarin bringing 593 grams to the scale
- Pied tamarin bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed chinchilla bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale