How big does a Amami rabbit get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) reaches an average size of 44.4 cm (1′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A Amami rabbit has 2 babies at once. The Amami rabbit (genus: Pentalagus) 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 Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi; Amami: [ʔosaɡi]), or Amamino kuro usagi (アマミノクロウサギ 奄美野黒兔, lit. “Amami wild black rabbit”), also known as the Ryukyu rabbit is a dark-furred rabbit which is only found in Amami Ōshima and Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern Kyūshū and Okinawa in Kagoshima Prefecture (but actually closer to Okinawa) in Japan. Often called a living fossil, the Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once lived on the Asian mainland, where they died out, remaining only on the two small Japanese islands where they live today.
Animals of the same family as a Amami rabbit
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- Jameson’s red rock hare with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Riverine rabbit with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Mountain cottontail with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Chinese hare with a size of 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Yarkand hare with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Abyssinian hare bringing 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs) to the scale
- European rabbit with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Antelope jackrabbit with a size of 54.6 cm (1′ 10″)
- New England cottontail with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Amami rabbit
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Amami rabbit:
- Alexander’s kusimanse with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Greater bilby with a size of 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Servaline genet with a size of 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Common brushtail possum with a size of 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Riverine rabbit with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tiger quoll with a size of 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Amami rabbit
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Amami rabbit: