How big does a Bengal fox get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis) reaches an average size of 52.3 cm (1′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 10 years, they grow from 58 grams (0.13 lbs) to 2.51 kg (5.54 lbs). A Bengal fox has 3 babies at once. The Bengal fox (genus: Vulpes) is a member of the family Canidae.
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 Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis), also known as the Indian fox, is a fox endemic to the Indian subcontinent and is found from the Himalayan foothills and Terai of Nepal through southern India and from southern and eastern Pakistan to eastern India and southeastern Bangladesh.
Animals of the same family as a Bengal fox
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Tibetan sand fox with a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72.4 cm (2′ 5″)
- South American gray fox with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Rüppell’s fox with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Crab-eating fox with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Side-striped jackal with a size of 74.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Sechuran fox with a size of 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Maned wolf with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Golden jackal with a size of 83 cm (2′ 9″)
Animals with the same size as a Bengal fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bengal fox:
- Blue monkey with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Steppe polecat with a size of 43.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Grivet with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- European hare with a size of 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Coypu with a size of 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Crested servaline genet with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Guatemalan black howler with a size of 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bengal fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bengal fox:
- Southern grasshopper mouse
- Texas mouse
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- Long-clawed mole vole
- Dolorous grass mouse
- Damaraland mole-rat
- Darien harvest mouse
- Allen’s wood mouse
- Yucatan deer mouse
- Bailey’s pocket mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bengal fox
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bengal fox:
- Eastern spotted skunk with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Myotis vivesi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Western tree hyrax with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with an average maximal age of 8.5 years
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- European mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Java mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bengal fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vulpes bengalensis:
- Mexican cottontail with a weight of 2.49 kilos (5.49 lbs)
- Black bearded saki with a weight of 2.97 kilos (6.55 lbs)
- Yunnan hare with a weight of 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs)
- Natal red rock hare with a weight of 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs)
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha with a weight of 2.68 kilos (5.91 lbs)
- White-nosed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose with a weight of 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with a weight of 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with a weight of 2.81 kilos (6.19 lbs)
- Abyssinian hare with a weight of 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs)