It is hard to guess what a Townsend’s pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Townsend’s pocket gopher (Thomomys townsendii) on average weights 263 grams (0.58 lbs).
The Townsend’s pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Thomomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.4 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Townsend’s pocket gophers can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 6.
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.
Townsend’s pocket gopher (Thomomys townsendii) is a species of pocket gopher endemic to the northwestern United States.
Animals of the same family as a Townsend’s pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a weight of 144 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a weight of 136 grams
- Mazama pocket gopher with a weight of 93 grams
- Plains pocket gopher with a weight of 179 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 420 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Variable pocket gopher with a weight of 615 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a weight of 172 grams
- Mountain pocket gopher with a weight of 81 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Townsend’s pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thomomys townsendii:
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum bringing 246 grams to the scale
- Tumbala climbing rat bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Lesser bandicoot rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat bringing 239 grams to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Armored rat bringing 281 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 314 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Townsend’s pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Townsend’s pocket gopher:
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao treeshrew with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Harpy fruit bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiga vole with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Townsend’s pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Townsend’s pocket gopher: