It is hard to guess what a Smoky pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smoky pocket gopher (Cratogeomys zinseri) on average weights 150 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Smoky pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Cratogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.4 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 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:
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a weight of 136 grams
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher with a weight of 499 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 302 grams
- Buller’s pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher with a weight of 350 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 zinseri:
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Papuan bandicoot bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Sula rat bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Haig’s tuco-tuco bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Tropical ground squirrel bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Western dwarf squirrel bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Jaliscan cotton rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Mindoro striped rat bringing 152 grams to the scale