How many baby Brush rabbits are in a litter?
A Brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 4 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 12 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 27 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Sylvilagus). An adult Brush rabbit grows up to a size of 30.4 cm (1′ 0″).
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 brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani), or western brush rabbit, or Californian brush rabbit, is a species of cottontail rabbit found in western coastal regions of North America, from the Columbia River in Oregon to the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. Its range extends as far east as the eastern sides of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Brush rabbit is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Manchurian hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese hare weighting around 1.61 kilograms (3.55 lbs)
- Swamp rabbit with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Robust cottontail raching a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- African savanna hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yarkand hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black jackrabbit weighting around 1.27 kilograms (2.8 lbs)
- Abyssinian hare weighting around 2.02 kilograms (4.45 lbs)
- Eastern cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Dice’s cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brush rabbit
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
- Kinabalu squirrel
- Mexican volcano mouse
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- Royle’s pika
- Ring-tailed cat
- Mountain pygmy possum
- Eastern pygmy possum
- Greater red musk shrew
- Vancouver Island marmot
Animals with the same weight as a Brush rabbit
What other animals weight around 716 grams (1.58 lbs)?
- Bolivian bamboo rat weighting 729 grams
- Moluccan flying fox weighting 728 grams
- Meerkat weighting 730 grams
- Yellow mongoose weighting 694 grams
- Atlantic bamboo rat weighting 600 grams
- Angolan kusimanse weighting 700 grams
- Black-footed tree-rat weighting 716 grams
- Golden lion tamarin weighting 593 grams
- Mountain beaver weighting 806 grams
- Stump-tailed porcupine weighting 832 grams
Animals with the same size as a Brush rabbit
Also reaching around 30.4 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Basilan flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Marbled polecat gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum gets as big as 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Great flying fox gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Silvery lutung gets as big as 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Striped bandicoot gets as big as 26.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Golden bandicoot gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Chinese red pika gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Western barred bandicoot gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)