How many baby Pampas foxs are in a litter?
A Pampas fox (Pseudalopex gymnocercus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 59 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 168 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Pseudalopex). An adult Pampas fox grows up to a size of 62.2 cm (2′ 1″).
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 pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus), also known as grey pampean fox, pampas zorro, Azara’s fox, or Azara’s zorro (in Spanish also called aguará chaí, anglicized as aguarachay), is a medium-sized zorro, or “false” fox, native to the South American pampas. Azara in some of its alternative common names is a reference to Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Pampas fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Falkland Islands wolf raching a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Fennec fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Coyote with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Corsac fox with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Golden jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Kit fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Swift fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pampas fox
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Molina’s grass mouse
- Bengal fox
- Damaraland mole-rat
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Sable
- Père David’s mole
- Emin’s gerbil
- San Diego pocket mouse
- Kobe mole
- Horsfield’s shrew
Animals that get as old as a Pampas fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.67 years:
- Water deer with 12 years
- Grant’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 15.5 years
- Antilopine kangaroo with 16 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with 12 years
- Beira (antelope) with 14 years
- La Plata dolphin with 16 years
- Dhole with 16 years
- Speke’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- Java mouse-deer with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pampas fox
What other animals weight around 4.54 kg (10.01 lbs)?
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 4.73 kgs (10.43 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 4.95 kgs (10.91 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)
- Olive colobus usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 4.12 kgs (9.08 lbs)
- Red-legged pademelon usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Kirk’s dik-dik usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Red panda usually reaching 5.17 kgs (11.4 lbs)
- L’Hoest’s monkey usually reaching 5.31 kgs (11.71 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo usually reaching 4.76 kgs (10.49 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pampas fox
Also reaching around 62.2 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Proboscis monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Pygathrix bieti gets as big as 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Sand cat gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bald uakari gets as big as 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Malayan civet gets as big as 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Red-shanked douc gets as big as 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Small-toothed palm civet gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Cape genet gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)