How many baby Marsh rabbits are in a litter?
A Marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 6 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 12 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 33 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 34 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 11.2 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Sylvilagus). An adult Marsh rabbit grows up to a size of 40.2 cm (1′ 4″).
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 marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris) is a small cottontail rabbit found in marshes and swamps of coastal regions of the Eastern and Southern United States. It is a strong swimmer and found only near regions of water. It is similar in appearance to the eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) but is characterized by smaller ears, legs, and tail.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Marsh rabbit is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Burmese hare weighting around 2.27 kilograms (5 lbs)
- Alaskan hare with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Desert cottontail with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Antelope jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Scrub hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hainan hare weighting around 1.52 kilograms (3.35 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Tolai hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Broom hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican cottontail with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Marsh rabbit
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Desert pocket mouse
- Turbo shrew
- Pampas cat
- Mexican woodrat
- Eastern gray squirrel
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Djoongari
- Black-striped squirrel
- Lesser yellow bat
- Cape dune mole-rat
Animals with the same weight as a Marsh rabbit
What other animals weight around 1.36 kg (2.99 lbs)?
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur usually reaching 1.62 kgs (3.57 lbs)
- Brown greater galago usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Platypus usually reaching 1.48 kgs (3.26 lbs)
- Northern brushtail possum usually reaching 1.55 kgs (3.42 lbs)
- Chacoan mara usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Grandidier’s mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Herbert River ringtail possum usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Rothschild’s cuscus usually reaching 1.37 kgs (3.02 lbs)
- Greater glider usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Marsh rabbit
Also reaching around 40.2 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Alexander’s kusimanse gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Eastern common cuscus gets as big as 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Chinese hare gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Lutrine opossum gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Snowshoe hare gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Aye-aye gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Steppe polecat gets as big as 43.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Blanford’s fox gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Selous’s mongoose gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)