How many baby Alaskan hares are in a litter?
A Alaskan hare (Lepus othus) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 45 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 102 grams (0.22 lbs) and measure 15.6 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Alaskan hare grows up to a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″).
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 Alaskan hare (Lepus othus), also known as the tundra hare, is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. They do not dig burrows and are found in the open tundra of western Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula in the United States. They are solitary for most of the year except during mating season, when they produce a single litter of up to eight young. Predators include birds of prey and polar bears, as well as humans for sport hunting.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Alaskan hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Amami rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tapeti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African savanna hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scrub hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Korean hare raching a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Natal red rock hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese hare weighting around 1.61 kilograms (3.55 lbs)
- Robust cottontail raching a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals that share a litter size with Alaskan hare
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Round-tailed ground squirrel
- Roborovski dwarf hamster
- Philippine warty pig
- Cinereus shrew
- Flat-headed vole
- Bornean bearded pig
- Julia Creek dunnart
- Spotted ground squirrel
- Little red kaluta
- Arctic ground squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Alaskan hare
What other animals weight around 4.85 kg (10.69 lbs)?
- Antelope jackrabbit usually reaching 3.93 kgs (8.66 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
- Northern tamandua usually reaching 4.11 kgs (9.06 lbs)
- Diana monkey usually reaching 4.36 kgs (9.61 lbs)
- Parma wallaby usually reaching 4.16 kgs (9.17 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Kit fox usually reaching 4.5 kgs (9.92 lbs)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby usually reaching 5.6 kgs (12.35 lbs)
- Tibetan sand fox usually reaching 5.54 kgs (12.21 lbs)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 4.44 kgs (9.79 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Alaskan hare
Also reaching around 57.6 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Moor macaque gets as big as 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Spotted-necked otter gets as big as 59.7 cm (2′ 0″)
- Kinkajou gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Rhesus macaque gets as big as 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sunda pangolin gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Agile wallaby gets as big as 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- Tana River red colobus gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Small-toothed palm civet gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)