It is hard to guess what a Mazama pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama) on average weights 93 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Mazama pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Thomomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Mazama pocket gophers have 3 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 Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama) is a smooth-toothed pocket gopher restricted to the Pacific Northwest. The species ranges from coastal Washington, through Oregon, and into north-central California.
Animals of the same family as a Mazama pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a weight of 123 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with a weight of 350 grams
- Southern pocket gopher with a weight of 126 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher with a weight of 250 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 266 grams
- Giant pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 397 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mazama pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomomys mazama:
- Big bonneted bat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Santander dwarf squirrel bringing 99 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Cauca climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Kobe mole bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Big-eared swamp rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Hispid cotton rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mazama pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mazama pocket gopher:
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s vole with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gansu pika with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mazama pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Mazama pocket gopher: