It is hard to guess what a Smoky pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys neglectus) on average weights 302 grams (0.67 lbs).
The Smoky pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Cratogeomys). 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:
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a weight of 474 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 397 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a weight of 263 grams
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per litter
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a weight of 123 grams
- Desert pocket gopher with a weight of 206 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 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 Cratogeomys neglectus:
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
- Unstriped ground squirrel bringing 317 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s pocket gopher bringing 263 grams to the scale
- White-headed marmoset bringing 342 grams to the scale
- Minca spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Pygmy slow loris bringing 343 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:
- Palawan treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red slender loris with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Komodo rat with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- European ground squirrel with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Grey-bellied squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
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: