How big does a Gray fox get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) reaches an average size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 15 years, they grow from 104 grams (0.23 lbs) to 3.83 kg (8.45 lbs). A Gray fox has 3 babies at once. The Gray fox (genus: Urocyon) 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 gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), or grey fox, is an omnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, widespread throughout North America and Central America. This species and its only congener, the diminutive island fox (Urocyon littoralis) of the California Channel Islands, are the only living members of the genus Urocyon, which is considered to be the most basal of the living canids. Though it was once the most common fox in the eastern United States, and still is found there, human advancement and deforestation allowed the red fox to become more dominant. The Pacific States still have the gray fox as a dominant. It is the only American canid that can climb trees. Its specific epithet cinereoargenteus means “ashen silver”.
Animals of the same family as a Gray fox
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Side-striped jackal with a size of 74.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Hoary fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Hoary fox with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Blanford’s fox with a size of 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Island fox with a size of 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Wolf with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Corsac fox with a size of 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tibetan sand fox with a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)
Animals with the same size as a Gray fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray fox:
- Cape fox with a size of 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Nilgiri langur with a size of 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a size of 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tres Marias raccoon with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Lowland paca with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Mentawai langur with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Suni with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Gray fox:
- Western mouse
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Acacia rat
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Ash-grey mouse
- Neacomys tenuipes
- Anderson’s gerbil
- Northern mole vole
- Black-tailed dasyure
- Pale kangaroo mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gray fox
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gray fox:
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Dall sheep with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Squirrel glider with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Common bent-wing bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Agile wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Quokka with an average maximal age of 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gray fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Urocyon cinereoargenteus:
- Greater cane rat with a weight of 3.75 kilos (8.27 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose with a weight of 3.6 kilos (7.94 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a weight of 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs)
- Western tree hyrax with a weight of 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs)
- Common spotted cuscus with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Coquerel’s sifaka with a weight of 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet with a weight of 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs)
- Moustached guenon with a weight of 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs)
- Flat-headed cat with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)