It is hard to guess what a Darien pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Darien pocket gopher (Orthogeomys dariensis) on average weights 437 grams (0.96 lbs).
The Darien 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 Darien pocket gopher (Orthogeomys dariensis) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Panama.
Animals of the same family as a Darien pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Northern pocket gopher with a weight of 105 grams
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a weight of 144 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 397 grams
- Big pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Southern pocket gopher with a weight of 126 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a weight of 136 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 599 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 419 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a weight of 172 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Darien pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Orthogeomys dariensis:
- Mauritian flying fox bringing 473 grams to the scale
- Desert hedgehog bringing 352 grams to the scale
- Texas pocket gopher bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Russian desman bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Franklin’s ground squirrel bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Black-mantled tamarin bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Southern Amazon red squirrel bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Greater guinea pig bringing 460 grams to the scale