How many baby Bengal foxs are in a litter?
A Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 52 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 58 grams (0.13 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes). An adult Bengal fox grows up to a size of 52.3 cm (1′ 9″).
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 Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis), also known as the Indian fox, is a fox endemic to the Indian subcontinent and is found from the Himalayan foothills and Terai of Nepal through southern India and from southern and eastern Pakistan to eastern India and southeastern Bangladesh.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Bengal fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Swift fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Maned wolf with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bat-eared fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kit fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Arctic fox with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Wolf with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Side-striped jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Falkland Islands wolf raching a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
Animals that share a litter size with Bengal fox
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Asian house shrew
- Western mouse
- Shipton’s mountain cavy
- Balochistan gerbil
- Chilean rock rat
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Nicobar shrew
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Southern flying squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Bengal fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Capybara with 12 years
- Brown mouse lemur with 12 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with 11 years
- Crowned lemur with 9.17 years
- Brown palm civet with 12 years
- Silver-haired bat with 12 years
- Cape fox with 10 years
- Oncilla with 10 years
- Northern treeshrew with 10 years
- Little pocket mouse with 8.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bengal fox
What other animals weight around 2.51 kg (5.54 lbs)?
- Orinoco agouti usually reaching 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin usually reaching 2.52 kgs (5.56 lbs)
- Yellow-throated marten usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Common brown lemur usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Long-nosed mongoose usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Central American agouti usually reaching 2.31 kgs (5.09 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Cat usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
- White-nosed saki usually reaching 2.8 kgs (6.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bengal fox
Also reaching around 52.3 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Pale fox gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- European hare gets as big as 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Royal antelope gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo gets as big as 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Southern muriqui gets as big as 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Six-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tonkean macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Otter civet gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo gets as big as 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Pampas cat gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)