How many baby Mountain hares are in a litter?
A Mountain hare (Lepus timidus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 9 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 50 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 113 grams (0.25 lbs) and measure 15.6 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Mountain hare grows up to a size of 50.9 cm (1′ 9″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare, and Irish hare, is a Palearctic hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats. This species is considered as the “National animal of Tatarstan” respectively.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Mountain hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Marsh rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran striped rabbit weighting around 1.51 kilograms (3.33 lbs)
- Pygmy rabbit with 5 babies per pregnancy
- San José brush rabbit raching a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- African savanna hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tres Marias rabbit weighting only 964 grams
- Black jackrabbit weighting around 1.27 kilograms (2.8 lbs)
- Mountain cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Scrub hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain hare
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Great jerboa
- Red rock rat
- Namaqua rock rat
- Eastern pygmy possum
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
- Woodland thicket rat
- Jackson’s shrew
- Lesser hamster-rat
- North American beaver
- Nephelomys albigularis
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain hare
What other animals weight around 3.11 kg (6.86 lbs)?
- Long-nosed mongoose usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha usually reaching 2.68 kgs (5.91 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Tiger quoll usually reaching 3.32 kgs (7.32 lbs)
- Sclater’s guenon usually reaching 3.07 kgs (6.77 lbs)
- Omilteme cottontail usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- African brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin usually reaching 3.01 kgs (6.64 lbs)
- Western tree hyrax usually reaching 3.18 kgs (7.01 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain hare
Also reaching around 50.9 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Tufted capuchin gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Japanese hare gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Servaline genet gets as big as 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Andean mountain cat gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Common spotted cuscus gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Brown howler gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Subalpine woolly rat gets as big as 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Small Indian civet gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Menzbier’s marmot gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Cape hare gets as big as 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)