How big does a Tropical pocket gopher get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Tropical pocket gopher (Geomys tropicalis) reaches an average size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 7 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 350 grams (0.77 lbs). A Tropical pocket gopher has 4 babies at once. The Tropical pocket gopher (genus: Geomys) is a member of the family Geomyidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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:
- Oaxacan pocket gopher with a weight of 499 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern pocket gopher with 2 babies per litter
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Variable pocket gopher with a weight of 615 grams
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher with a weight of 150 grams
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mazama pocket gopher with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a weight of 600 grams
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:
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
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:
- Boehm’s gerbil
- Smoke-bellied rat
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec
- Indian hedgehog
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse
- Panamint chipmunk
- Small five-toed jerboa
- Northern pocket gopher
- Akodon azarae
- Common kusimanse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Tropical pocket gopher
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Tropical pocket gopher:
- Indian gerbil with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with an average maximal age of 5.83 years
- Black-shouldered opossum with an average maximal age of 7.83 years
- Florida mouse with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Woodland dormouse with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Kowari with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Canyon bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Arctic hare with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
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:
- Prevost’s squirrel bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Namaqua dune mole-rat bringing 389 grams to the scale
- Madagascan fruit bat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Red bush squirrel bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Silvery marmoset bringing 376 grams to the scale
- Pteropus gilliardi bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Stoat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Borneo black-banded squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale