How many baby Arctic foxs are in a litter?
A Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) usually gives birth to around 7 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 52 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 69 grams (0.15 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes). An adult Arctic fox grows up to a size of 56.4 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 Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome. It is well adapted to living in cold environments, and is best known for its thick, warm fur that is also used as camouflage. In the wild, most individuals do not live past their first year but some exceptional ones survive up to 11 years. Its body length ranges from 46 to 68 cm (18 to 27 in), with a generally rounded body shape to minimize the escape of body heat.The Arctic fox preys on many small creatures such as lemmings, voles, ringed seal pups, fish, waterfowl, and seabirds. It also eats carrion, berries, seaweed, and insects and other small invertebrates. Arctic foxes form monogamous pairs during the breeding season and they stay together to raise their young in complex underground dens. Occasionally, other family members may assist in raising their young. Natural predators of the Arctic fox are golden eagles, polar bears, wolverines, red foxes, wolves, and grizzly bears.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Arctic fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
- Golden jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pale fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Wolf with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Corsac fox with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan sand fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian wolf weighting around 14.38 kilograms (31.7 lbs)
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Arctic fox
Those animals also give birth to 7 babies at once:
- Laxmann’s shrew
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
- European hamster
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Drylands vesper mouse
- Prairie shrew
- Pallas’s pika
- Northern red-sided opossum
- Common opossum
- Red-tailed phascogale
Animals that get as old as a Arctic fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Short-eared possum with 17 years
- Nilgiri tahr with 17.25 years
- Greater glider with 15 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with 12 years
- Malayan civet with 12 years
- Nine-banded armadillo with 15 years
- Red forest duiker with 15 years
- Red fox with 15 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Arctic fox
What other animals weight around 3.58 kg (7.9 lbs)?
- Groundhog usually reaching 3.88 kgs (8.55 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose usually reaching 3.6 kgs (7.94 lbs)
- Hoary fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- African brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
- Brown-throated sloth usually reaching 4 kgs (8.82 lbs)
- Egyptian mongoose usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Short-eared possum usually reaching 3.13 kgs (6.9 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Western tree hyrax usually reaching 3.18 kgs (7.01 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Arctic fox
Also reaching around 56.4 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Island fox gets as big as 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Common spotted cuscus gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Agile gibbon gets as big as 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Collared mangabey gets as big as 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Tibetan sand fox gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Brown woolly monkey gets as big as 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bald uakari gets as big as 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)