How many baby Bunyoro rabbits are in a litter?
A Bunyoro rabbit (Poelagus marjorita) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 34 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Poelagus). An adult Bunyoro rabbit grows up to a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″).
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 Bunyoro rabbit or Central African rabbit (Poelagus marjorita) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It is monotypic within the genus Poelagus. It is found in central Africa and its typical habitat is damp savannah, often with rocky outcrops.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Bunyoro rabbit is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Black jackrabbit weighting around 1.27 kilograms (2.8 lbs)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail raching a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Omilteme cottontail weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Tapeti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African savanna hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese hare weighting around 1.61 kilograms (3.55 lbs)
- San José brush rabbit raching a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Woolly hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Scrub hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-sided jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bunyoro rabbit
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Alpine musk deer
- White-throated guenon
- Gilbert’s potoroo
- Goitered gazelle
- Underwood’s bonneted bat
- Potto
- Black flying squirrel
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Roan antelope
- Common ringtail possum
Animals with the same weight as a Bunyoro rabbit
What other animals weight around 2.51 kg (5.53 lbs)?
- Rufous rat-kangaroo usually reaching 2.81 kgs (6.19 lbs)
- Cape fox usually reaching 2.92 kgs (6.44 lbs)
- Sanford’s brown lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Indian hare usually reaching 2.3 kgs (5.07 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Broom hare usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
- Striped skunk usually reaching 2.4 kgs (5.29 lbs)
- Common brown lemur usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Golden palm civet usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bunyoro rabbit
Also reaching around 47 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Red and white giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Brown howler gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Crested mona monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat gets as big as 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Omilteme cottontail gets as big as 39.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Tasmanian devil gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Granada hare gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Abyssinian genet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Cape fox gets as big as 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)