It is hard to guess what a Chiriqui pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chiriqui pocket gopher (Orthogeomys cavator) on average weights 650 grams (1.43 lbs).
The Chiriqui pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Orthogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Chiriqui pocket gopher (Orthogeomys cavator) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.
Animals of the same family as a Chiriqui pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a weight of 172 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Plains pocket gopher with a weight of 179 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 397 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chiriqui pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Orthogeomys cavator:
- Abert’s squirrel bringing 623 grams to the scale
- White-faced spiny tree-rat bringing 610 grams to the scale
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew bringing 535 grams to the scale
- European mink bringing 567 grams to the scale
- Guinea pig bringing 728 grams to the scale
- Baja California rock squirrel bringing 551 grams to the scale
- Black flying fox bringing 609 grams to the scale
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 736 grams to the scale
- Spermophilus relictus bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Guianan squirrel monkey bringing 750 grams to the scale