It is hard to guess what a Smoky pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smoky pocket gopher (Pappogeomys neglectus) on average weights 302 grams (0.67 lbs).
The Smoky pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Pappogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.2 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Smoky pocket gophers have 1 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 smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys fumosus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico (Querétaro). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. Molecular phylogenetics has revealed that this species also includes the animals formerly separated as C. gymnurus, C. neglectus, C. tylorhinus and C. zinseri.
Animals of the same family as a Smoky pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Underwood’s pocket gopher with a weight of 250 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 266 grams
- Variable pocket gopher with a weight of 615 grams
- Desert pocket gopher with a weight of 206 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 419 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a weight of 263 grams
- Southeastern pocket gopher with a weight of 201 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 420 grams
- Northern pocket gopher with a weight of 105 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pappogeomys neglectus:
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed giant rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Common gundi bringing 289 grams to the scale
- Uinta ground squirrel bringing 307 grams to the scale
- Desert hedgehog bringing 352 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum bringing 246 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Smoky pocket gopher:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mariana fruit bat with a size of 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gilliard’s flying fox with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- North African hedgehog with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Smoky pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Smoky pocket gopher: