It is hard to guess what a Southern pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern pocket gopher (Thomomys umbrinus) on average weights 126 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Southern pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Thomomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.4 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Southern pocket gophers have 2 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 southern pocket gopher (Thomomys umbrinus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States, usually in high altitude grassland and shrubland. It feeds on plant material and has an extensive burrow above which is a large heap of earth on the surface of the ground.
Animals of the same family as a Southern pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Oaxacan pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 266 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 599 grams
- Mountain pocket gopher with a weight of 81 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 302 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher with a weight of 250 grams
- Northern pocket gopher with a weight of 105 grams
- Variable pocket gopher with a weight of 615 grams
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomomys umbrinus:
- Dwarf flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Stein’s rat bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Steppe pika bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Kowari bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian rock rat bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Desert woodrat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Tristram’s jird bringing 112 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Southern pocket gopher: