How many baby Crab-eating foxs are in a litter?
A Crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 57 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 140 grams (0.31 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Cerdocyon). An adult Crab-eating fox grows up to a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″).
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 crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous), also known as the forest fox, wood fox, or maikong, is an extant species of medium-sized canid endemic to the central part of South America, and which appeared during the Pliocene epoch. Like South American foxes, which are in the genus Lycalopex, it is not closely related to true foxes. Cerdocyon comes from the Greek words kerdo (meaning fox) and kyon (dog) referring to the dog- and fox-like characteristics of this animal.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Crab-eating fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Gray fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bush dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian wolf weighting around 14.38 kilograms (31.7 lbs)
- Red fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Kit fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Falkland Islands wolf raching a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Coyote with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Fennec fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Crab-eating fox
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- San Diego pocket mouse
- Crosse’s shrew
- Northern grasshopper mouse
- Smooth-coated otter
- Gray climbing mouse
- Creeping vole
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Volcano harvest mouse
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa
- Graphiurus hueti
Animals that get as old as a Crab-eating fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11.5 years:
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- Northern tamandua with 9.5 years
- Red-flanked duiker with 9.5 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with 13.5 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with 10.17 years
- Plains viscacha with 9.33 years
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 13.17 years
- Short-eared dog with 11 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Kodkod with 11 years
Animals with the same weight as a Crab-eating fox
What other animals weight around 5.74 kg (12.66 lbs)?
- Rhesus macaque usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Chinese mountain cat usually reaching 5.49 kgs (12.1 lbs)
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Tasmanian pademelon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- Bobcat usually reaching 6.38 kgs (14.07 lbs)
- Blue monkey usually reaching 5.04 kgs (11.11 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo usually reaching 4.76 kgs (10.49 lbs)
- Agile gibbon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- Blue duiker usually reaching 4.9 kgs (10.8 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Crab-eating fox
Also reaching around 65 cm (2′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Black-backed jackal gets as big as 70.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Wolverine gets as big as 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Mandrill gets as big as 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Venezuelan red howler gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Indian pangolin gets as big as 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- European hare gets as big as 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Mantled guereza gets as big as 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Plains viscacha gets as big as 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tibetan sand fox gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Antelope jackrabbit gets as big as 54.6 cm (1′ 10″)