How big does a Arctic hare get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) reaches an average size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″).
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 4.42 kg (9.75 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Arctic hares have 5 babies about 1 times per year. The Arctic hare (genus: Lepus) is a member of the family Leporidae.
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 Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) is a species of hare which is highly adapted to living in the Arctic tundra, and other icy biomes. The Arctic hare survives with shortened ears and limbs, a small nose, fat that makes up 20% of its body, and a thick coat of fur. It usually digs holes in the ground or under snow to keep warm and to sleep. Arctic hares look like rabbits but have shorter ears, are taller when standing and, unlike rabbits, can thrive in extreme cold. They can travel together with many other hares, sometimes huddling with dozens or more, but are usually found alone, sometimes taking more than one partner. The Arctic hare can run up to 60 kilometres per hour (40 mph).
Animals of the same family as a Arctic hare
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- Tolai hare with 2 babies per litter
- Abyssinian hare bringing 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs) to the scale
- Mexican cottontail with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Snowshoe hare with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- European hare with a size of 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Natal red rock hare with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Indian hare with 1 babies per litter
- Amami rabbit with a size of 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Cape hare with a size of 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- European rabbit with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Arctic hare
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Arctic hare:
- Black colobus with a size of 62.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Javan surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-thighed surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Lowland paca with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Stump-tailed macaque with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a size of 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Swift fox with a size of 50.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Zanzibar red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Agile gibbon with a size of 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Arctic hare
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Arctic hare:
- Rock dormouse
- Dusky field rat
- Hispid cotton rat
- Javan warty pig
- Middendorf’s vole
- Mountain weasel
- Rufous mouse opossum
- Grey red-backed vole
- Red wolf
- Long-tailed shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Arctic hare
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Arctic hare:
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Florida mouse with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- San Diego pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Gray short-tailed opossum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Kowari with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 6.33 years
- North African hedgehog with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Woylie with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Arctic hare
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lepus arcticus:
- Brown palm civet with a weight of 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 3.74 kilos (8.25 lbs)
- Large-spotted civet with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Mexican agouti with a weight of 5 kilos (11.02 lbs)
- Grivet with a weight of 3.86 kilos (8.51 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter with a weight of 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs)
- Hoary fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs)
- Brown howler with a weight of 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with a weight of 3.61 kilos (7.96 lbs)