It is hard to guess what a Underwood’s pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Underwood’s pocket gopher (Orthogeomys underwoodi) on average weights 250 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Underwood’s pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Orthogeomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 41.9 cm (1′ 5″).
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.
Underwood’s pocket gopher (Orthogeomys underwoodi) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Costa Rica.
Animals of the same family as a Underwood’s pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a weight of 172 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 599 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 403 grams
- Darien pocket gopher with a weight of 437 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a weight of 136 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 267 grams
- Mountain pocket gopher with a weight of 81 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a weight of 266 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a weight of 263 grams
- Wyoming pocket gopher with 6 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Underwood’s pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Orthogeomys underwoodi:
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Madagascan fruit bat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed woodrat bringing 286 grams to the scale
- Belding’s ground squirrel bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Common dwarf mongoose bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Mechow’s mole-rat bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Speckled ground squirrel bringing 252 grams to the scale