How many baby Blanford’s foxs are in a litter?
A Blanford’s fox (Vulpes cana) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 57 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 29 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes). An adult Blanford’s fox grows up to a size of 42.7 cm (1′ 5″).
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.
Blanford’s fox (Vulpes cana) is a small fox native to the Middle East and Central Asia.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Blanford’s fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- African wild dog with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Red fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Coyote with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Raccoon dog with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Maned wolf with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan sand fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Side-striped jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Black-backed jackal with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Blanford’s fox
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Leopard cat
- Plantain squirrel
- Mexican woodrat
- Saiga antelope
- Chiruromys lamia
- Mexican small-eared shrew
- Pygmy rock mouse
- Common yellow-toothed cavy
- Spotted-necked otter
- Southern pygmy mouse
Animals that get as old as a Blanford’s fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Agile wallaby with 12 years
- Mountain beaver with 10 years
- Siberian weasel with 8.83 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
- Edible dormouse with 9 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 10 years
- Gray dorcopsis with 8 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with 8.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Blanford’s fox
What other animals weight around 994 grams (2.19 lbs)?
- Large flying fox usually reaching 1.03 kgs (2.27 lbs)
- Herbert River ringtail possum usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Mountain beaver weighting 806 grams
- David’s echymipera weighting 817 grams
- Eastern white-eared giant rat weighting 867 grams
- Water opossum weighting 977 grams
- Rock cavy weighting 800 grams
- Potto usually reaching 1.08 kgs (2.38 lbs)
- Hispaniolan solenodon weighting 893 grams
- Japanese marten usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Blanford’s fox
Also reaching around 42.7 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Black-footed cat gets as big as 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Liberian mongoose gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Malagasy civet gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Common brown lemur gets as big as 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tapeti gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Kloss’s gibbon gets as big as 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Red-bellied titi gets as big as 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tufted capuchin gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)