It is hard to guess what a Yellow-faced pocket gopher weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-faced pocket gopher (Cratogeomys castanops) on average weights 266 grams (0.59 lbs).
The Yellow-faced pocket gopher is from the family Geomyidae (genus: Cratogeomys). It is usually born with about 6 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 4.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.2 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Yellow-faced pocket gophers can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 yellow-faced pocket gopher (Cratogeomys castanops) is a species of pocket gopher that is native to shortgrass prairies in the south-western United States and northern Mexico. It is the species that lives north of the Southern Coahuila Filter-Barrier (SCFB). Among the different species, the yellow-faced pocket gopher has a small to medium-sized skull. The fossil of this genus was recorded from the pre-Pleistocene Benson Beds of Arizona.The yellow-faced pocket gopher has a yellowish-brown coat, a short tail, and one deep groove down the anterior middle of each incisor.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-faced pocket gopher
We found other animals of the Geomyidae family:
- Camas pocket gopher with a weight of 360 grams
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a weight of 123 grams
- Southeastern pocket gopher with a weight of 201 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a weight of 172 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a weight of 263 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mazama pocket gopher with a weight of 93 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-faced pocket gopher
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cratogeomys castanops:
- Goeldi’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 248 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest rat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Smith’s bush squirrel bringing 222 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed squirrel bringing 319 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-faced pocket gopher
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow-faced pocket gopher:
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pygmy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern pika with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Insular flying fox with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Echigo mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-striped squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Steppe pika with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow-faced pocket gopher
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Yellow-faced pocket gopher:
- Silvery greater galago
- False water rat
- Nilgiri striped squirrel
- Cactus mouse
- Southern pygmy mouse
- Marsh mongoose
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel
- Serval
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Banded linsang
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Yellow-faced pocket gopher
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Yellow-faced pocket gopher:
- Uinta ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Giant golden mole with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Black-footed tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years