It is hard to guess what a Southeastern pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) on average weights 201 grams (0.44 lbs).
The Southeastern pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Geomys). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.4 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Southeastern pocket gophers can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) is a species of pocket gopher that is native to the southeastern United States. It occurs in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, where it is the only pocket gopher.
Animals of the same family as a Southeastern pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 397 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 420 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 grams
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per litter
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with a weight of 650 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 599 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher with a weight of 250 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 419 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southeastern pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geomys pinetis:
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat bringing 178 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Ceram fruit bat bringing 228 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antsangy bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Greedy olalla rat bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Ontong Java flying fox bringing 232 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Peleng tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Southeastern pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Southeastern pocket gopher: