It is hard to guess what a Michoacan pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Michoacan pocket gopher (Zygogeomys trichopus) on average weights 474 grams (1.04 lbs).
The Michoacan pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Zygogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.5 cm (0′ 9″).
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 Michoacan pocket gopher (Zygogeomys trichopus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is monotypic within the genus Zygogeomys. It is endemic to Mexico where its natural habitat is temperate, high-altitude forests. Its numbers are declining and it is listed by the IUCN as “endangered”.
Animals of the same family as a Michoacan pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mazama pocket gopher with a weight of 93 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher with a weight of 250 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with a weight of 350 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 420 grams
- Darien pocket gopher with a weight of 437 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 397 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Variable pocket gopher with a weight of 615 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with a weight of 650 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Michoacan pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zygogeomys trichopus:
- Giant golden mole bringing 440 grams to the scale
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat bringing 502 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tamarin bringing 493 grams to the scale
- Prevost’s squirrel bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Columbian ground squirrel bringing 471 grams to the scale
- Guayaquil squirrel bringing 433 grams to the scale
- Southern tuco-tuco bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Gray-backed sportive lemur bringing 506 grams to the scale
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat bringing 397 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Michoacan pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Michoacan pocket gopher:
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-striped squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Summit rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Striped treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Vogelkop ringtail possum with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Giant golden mole with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)