How many baby Cape hares are in a litter?
A Cape hare (Lepus capensis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 42 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 114 grams (0.25 lbs) and measure 14 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Cape hare grows up to a size of 42.6 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.
The Cape hare (Lepus capensis), also called the desert hare, is a hare native to Africa and Arabia extending into India.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Cape hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Tres Marias rabbit weighting only 964 grams
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- European rabbit with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Yarkand hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Tolai hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Volcano rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Antelope jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Arctic hare with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cape hare
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Travancore flying squirrel
- Southern mountain cavy
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
- Guaira spiny rat
- Cape gray mongoose
- Fresno kangaroo rat
- Gray tree rat
- Central African oyan
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Hoary bat
Animals with the same weight as a Cape hare
What other animals weight around 2.05 kg (4.52 lbs)?
- Cape genet usually reaching 2.07 kgs (4.56 lbs)
- Sanford’s brown lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
- Andean hairy armadillo usually reaching 2.14 kgs (4.72 lbs)
- Jameson’s red rock hare usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Eastern bettong usually reaching 1.66 kgs (3.66 lbs)
- Liberian mongoose usually reaching 1.82 kgs (4.01 lbs)
- Johnston’s genet usually reaching 2.23 kgs (4.92 lbs)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Riverine rabbit usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Swift fox usually reaching 2.11 kgs (4.65 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Cape hare
Also reaching around 42.6 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Servaline genet gets as big as 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Olive colobus gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- African savanna hare gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-nosed saki gets as big as 44 cm (1′ 6″)
- Yarkand hare gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo gets as big as 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey gets as big as 43.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin gets as big as 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Arabian gazelle gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Cape gray mongoose gets as big as 35 cm (1′ 2″)