How many baby Corsac foxs are in a litter?
A Corsac fox (Vulpes corsac) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 54 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 63 grams (0.14 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes). An adult Corsac fox grows up to a size of 58 cm (1′ 11″).
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 corsac fox (Vulpes corsac), also known simply as a corsac, is a medium-sized fox found in steppes, semi-deserts and deserts in Central Asia, ranging into Mongolia and northeastern China. Since 2004, it has been classified as least concern by IUCN, but populations fluctuate significantly, and numbers can drop tenfold within a single year.It is also known as the steppe fox, and sometimes referred to as the “sand fox”, but this terminology is confusing because two other species, the Tibetan sand fox and Rüppell’s fox, are also sometimes known by this name. The word “corsac” is derived from the Russian name for the animal, “korsák” (корса́к), derived ultimately from Turkic “karsak”.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Corsac fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Black-backed jackal with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kit fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African wild dog with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Falkland Islands wolf raching a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Side-striped jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Corsac fox
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Woolley’s false antechinus
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa
- Red wolf
- Northern red-backed vole
- Long-tailed vole
- Mongolian hamster
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster
- Cliff chipmunk
- Soft-furred rat
- Northern gracile opossum
Animals with the same weight as a Corsac fox
What other animals weight around 2.62 kg (5.77 lbs)?
- Black-tailed jackrabbit usually reaching 2.42 kgs (5.34 lbs)
- Orinoco agouti usually reaching 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
- Marbled cat usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
- Woolly hare usually reaching 2.47 kgs (5.45 lbs)
- Mountain hare usually reaching 3.11 kgs (6.86 lbs)
- Rock hyrax usually reaching 2.95 kgs (6.5 lbs)
- Sunda stink badger usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo usually reaching 2.81 kgs (6.19 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Corsac fox
Also reaching around 58 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- North American river otter gets as big as 68.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Dusky pademelon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern tamandua gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black-headed spider monkey gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Silvery gibbon gets as big as 67.6 cm (2′ 3″)
- Northern plains gray langur gets as big as 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Delacour’s langur gets as big as 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Southern river otter gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)