It is hard to guess what a Mountain pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain pocket gopher (Thomomys monticola) on average weights 81 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Mountain pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Thomomys). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Mountain pocket gophers can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 mountain pocket gopher (Thomomys monticola) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae.It is found in California and Nevada, and is endemic there, in the Western United States. The Sierra Nevada are part of its range.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Southern pocket gopher with a weight of 126 grams
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per litter
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 420 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a weight of 136 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a weight of 172 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with a weight of 650 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 267 grams
- Giant pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a weight of 144 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomomys monticola:
- Central American dwarf squirrel bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rutilus bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Oldfield white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Coues’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Siberian chipmunk bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Greater musky fruit bat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Oecomys cleberi bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Large tree mouse bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Gray mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Western rock elephant shrew bringing 65 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Mountain pocket gopher:
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- Cape gerbil
- Savanna gerbil
- Northern three-toed jerboa
- Black-tailed dasyure
- Heath mouse
- Pampas fox
- Acacia rat
- Plains pocket gopher
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mountain pocket gopher
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mountain pocket gopher:
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Evening bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- European hamster with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Slender mongoose with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Saharan striped polecat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Val’s gundi with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years