How many baby Cape foxs are in a litter?
A Cape fox (Vulpes chama) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 52 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 Cape fox grows up to a size of 53.4 cm (1′ 10″).
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 Cape fox (Vulpes chama), also called the asse, cama fox or the silver-backed fox, is a small fox, native to southern Africa. It is also called a South African version of a fennec fox due to their big ears.It has black or silver gray fur with flanks and underside in light yellow. The tip of its tail is always black.The Cape fox tends to be 45 to 61 cm (17.5 to 24 in) long, not including a 30 to 40 cm (12 to 15.5 in) tail. It is 28 to 33 cm (11 to 13 in) tall at the shoulder, and usually weighs from 3.6 to 5 kg (7.9 to 11.0 lb).
Other animals of the family Canidae
Cape fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Kit fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Falkland Islands wolf raching a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Dhole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Coyote with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Corsac fox with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan sand fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cape fox
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Grey-bellied squirrel
- Desert pocket mouse
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Highland streaked tenrec
- Texas kangaroo rat
- Banded mongoose
- Glacier rat
- Eurasian beaver
- Indian crested porcupine
Animals that get as old as a Cape fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Central American agouti with 10 years
- Eastern cottontail with 9 years
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Dice’s cottontail with 9 years
- Javan mongoose with 10 years
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with 10.42 years
- Muskrat with 10 years
- Chacoan peccary with 9 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 8.83 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cape fox
What other animals weight around 2.92 kg (6.44 lbs)?
- Rüppell’s fox usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.58 kgs (5.69 lbs)
- Omilteme cottontail usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Red lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit usually reaching 2.51 kgs (5.53 lbs)
- Stripe-necked mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Sanford’s brown lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Cape fox
Also reaching around 53.4 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Crab-eating raccoon gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Dusky pademelon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Tibetan macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Suni gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- South American gray fox gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Capped langur gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Crested servaline genet gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)