It is hard to guess what a Desert pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert pocket gopher (Geomys arenarius) on average weights 206 grams (0.45 lbs).
The Desert pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Geomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.2 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Desert pocket gophers have 4 babies per litter.
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 desert pocket gopher (Geomys arenarius) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico and in Texas and New Mexico in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Desert pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Darien pocket gopher with a weight of 437 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with a weight of 650 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Plains pocket gopher with a weight of 179 grams
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a weight of 123 grams
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a weight of 144 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Giant pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Variable pocket gopher with a weight of 615 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geomys arenarius:
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat bringing 236 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed antsangy bringing 219 grams to the scale
- White-bellied nesomys bringing 214 grams to the scale
- Kintampo rope squirrel bringing 186 grams to the scale
- Northern treeshrew bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Golden angwantibo bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Shrew-faced squirrel bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Ceram fruit bat bringing 228 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert pocket gopher:
- Dusky field rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Afghan pika with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-eared cotton rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Big-eared climbing rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Desert pocket gopher: