It is hard to guess what a Tropical pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tropical pocket gopher (Geomys tropicalis) on average weights 350 grams (0.77 lbs).
The Tropical pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Geomys). They can live for up to 7 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.2 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Tropical pocket gophers have 4 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 tropical pocket gopher (Geomys tropicalis) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico.Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Tropical pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with a weight of 650 grams
- Southeastern pocket gopher with a weight of 201 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher with a weight of 419 grams
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per litter
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a weight of 172 grams
- Northern pocket gopher with a weight of 105 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a weight of 263 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tropical pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Geomys tropicalis:
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Pygmy spotted skunk bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Pacific spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Common marmoset bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- European ground squirrel bringing 396 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat bringing 301 grams to the scale
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tropical pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tropical pocket gopher:
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ontong Java flying fox with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tropical pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Tropical pocket gopher:
- Silky mouse
- American mink
- Tamarisk jird
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse
- Talas tuco-tuco
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat
- Dsinezumi shrew
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo
- Alpine chipmunk
- Northern collared lemming
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Tropical pocket gopher
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Tropical pocket gopher:
- Rakali with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Hazel dormouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- American pika with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Gray short-tailed opossum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Maned rat with an average maximal age of 7.5 years
- Florida mouse with an average maximal age of 7.33 years