How many baby Arctic hares are in a litter?
A Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 51 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 67 grams (0.15 lbs) and measure 15.3 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Arctic hare grows up to a size of 57.2 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 hare (Lepus arcticus) is a species of hare which is highly adapted to living in the Arctic tundra, and other icy biomes. The Arctic hare survives with shortened ears and limbs, a small nose, fat that makes up 20% of its body, and a thick coat of fur. It usually digs holes in the ground or under snow to keep warm and to sleep. Arctic hares look like rabbits but have shorter ears, are taller when standing and, unlike rabbits, can thrive in extreme cold. They can travel together with many other hares, sometimes huddling with dozens or more, but are usually found alone, sometimes taking more than one partner. The Arctic hare can run up to 60 kilometres per hour (40 mph).
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Arctic hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Korean hare raching a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black jackrabbit weighting around 1.27 kilograms (2.8 lbs)
- Swamp rabbit with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Riverine rabbit with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy rabbit with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Marsh rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Omilteme cottontail weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- White-sided jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Alaskan hare with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Brush rabbit with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Arctic hare
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Eastern quoll
- Alston’s cotton rat
- Gray marmot
- Zarudny’s rock shrew
- Long-tailed vole
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Winter white dwarf hamster
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse
- Midday jird
- Long-tailed shrew
Animals that get as old as a Arctic hare
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- Maned rat with 7.5 years
- Least chipmunk with 6.25 years
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with 8 years
- Eastern pygmy possum with 8 years
- Gray dorcopsis with 8 years
- Eastern quoll with 6.75 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 8 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with 6 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 7 years
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with 5.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Arctic hare
What other animals weight around 4.42 kg (9.75 lbs)?
- Verreaux’s sifaka usually reaching 3.61 kgs (7.96 lbs)
- Parma wallaby usually reaching 4.16 kgs (9.17 lbs)
- Groundhog usually reaching 3.88 kgs (8.55 lbs)
- Brown palm civet usually reaching 3.55 kgs (7.83 lbs)
- Campbell’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.63 kgs (8 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- Sun-tailed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)
- Long-tailed marmot usually reaching 4.35 kgs (9.59 lbs)
- Red ruffed lemur usually reaching 3.87 kgs (8.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Arctic hare
Also reaching around 57.2 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Collared mangabey gets as big as 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Red-handed howler gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Small-toothed palm civet gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Mona monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Mentawai langur gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Spotted-necked otter gets as big as 59.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Assam macaque gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Guatemalan black howler gets as big as 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black-footed gray langur gets as big as 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)