Cratogeomys castanops
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In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
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. Adults of C. castanops in Texas begin to molt in August and continue through March. The new pelage was found to be thicker, but had no change in color. In Kansas, semiannual molts in adults have been reported: Molt from winter to summer early in the spring
Molt in autumn in September and October There is sexual dimorphism in the yellow-faced pocket gophers; the males are larger than the females. The males of all genera of pocket gophers continue to grow after attaining sexual maturity, but females grow little after reaching sexual maturity.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Torreón | 🇲🇽 México |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher sighting in Torreón on a given day, based on 40 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and November–December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher in Torreón on a given day, against under 5% in January and August, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Torreón, in our data
Torreón is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Rodentia
The closest relatives of the Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher that you can see in Torreón (order Rodentia, Rodents) are Spotted Ground Squirrel (about 20%) and Rock Squirrel (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher is recorded against all the mammals logged in Torreón (40 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
