How big does a Culpeo get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Culpeo (Pseudalopex culpaeus) reaches an average size of 72.4 cm (2′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 8.62 kg (19 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 168 grams (0.37 lbs). A Culpeo has 4 babies at once. The Culpeo (genus: Pseudalopex) 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 culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), sometimes known as the zorro culpeo, Andean zorro or Andean fox, is a South American fox species. It is the second-largest native canid on the continent, after the maned wolf. In appearance, it bears many similarities to the widely recognized red fox. It has grey and reddish fur, a white chin, reddish legs and a stripe on its back that may be barely visible.The culpeo’s diet consists largely of rodents, rabbits, birds and lizards, and to a lesser extent, plant material and carrion. The culpeo does attack sheep on occasion and is therefore often hunted or poisoned. In some regions, it has become rare, but overall the species is not threatened with extinction.The culpeo was domesticated to form the Fuegian dog, but this animal became extinct some time between 1880 and 1919.
Animals of the same family as a Culpeo
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Hoary fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Maned wolf with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Red wolf with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Sechuran fox with a size of 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Swift fox with a size of 50.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Ethiopian wolf with a size of 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 62.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Pale fox with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Sechuran fox with a size of 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same size as a Culpeo
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Culpeo:
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.2 cm (2′ 4″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Bonobo with a size of 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Northern plains gray langur with a size of 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Bristle-spined rat with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Jaguarundi with a size of 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Red-shanked douc with a size of 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- African clawless otter with a size of 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Culpeo
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Culpeo:
- Red-tailed chipmunk
- Western pygmy possum
- Colorado chipmunk
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat
- White-nosed coati
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum
- Silky mouse
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus
- Bush rat
- Least chipmunk
Animals with the same weight as a Culpeo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudalopex culpaeus:
- Asian golden cat with a weight of 7.73 kilos (17.04 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Purple-faced langur with a weight of 7.53 kilos (16.6 lbs)
- Collared mangabey with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 7.98 kilos (17.59 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker with a weight of 9.25 kilos (20.39 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with a weight of 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with a weight of 7.85 kilos (17.31 lbs)
- Assam macaque with a weight of 8.55 kilos (18.85 lbs)