How many baby Culpeos are in a litter?
A Culpeo (Pseudalopex culpaeus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 58 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 168 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Pseudalopex). An adult Culpeo grows up to a size of 72.4 cm (2′ 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 culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus), sometimes known as the zorro culpeo, Andean zorro or Andean fox, is a South American fox species. It is the second-largest native canid on the continent, after the maned wolf. In appearance, it bears many similarities to the widely recognized red fox. It has grey and reddish fur, a white chin, reddish legs and a stripe on its back that may be barely visible.The culpeo’s diet consists largely of rodents, rabbits, birds and lizards, and to a lesser extent, plant material and carrion. The culpeo does attack sheep on occasion and is therefore often hunted or poisoned. In some regions, it has become rare, but overall the species is not threatened with extinction.The culpeo was domesticated to form the Fuegian dog, but this animal became extinct some time between 1880 and 1919.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Culpeo is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Blanford’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red wolf with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sechuran fox weighting around 4.23 kilograms (9.33 lbs)
- Red fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
- Side-striped jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Golden jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian wolf weighting around 14.38 kilograms (31.7 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Culpeo
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Camas pocket gopher
- Dice’s cottontail
- Turkestan rat
- Zygodontomys brevicauda
- Spermophilus relictus
- Great Basin pocket mouse
- Smoke-bellied rat
- Colorado chipmunk
- Bushveld gerbil
- Desert pygmy mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Culpeo
What other animals weight around 8.62 kg (19 lbs)?
- Sarcophilus laniarius usually reaching 8.35 kgs (18.41 lbs)
- Phayre’s leaf monkey usually reaching 7.69 kgs (16.95 lbs)
- Western long-beaked echidna usually reaching 8.95 kgs (19.73 lbs)
- Western red colobus usually reaching 8.43 kgs (18.58 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.56 kgs (18.87 lbs)
- Aardwolf usually reaching 8.29 kgs (18.28 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 8.31 kgs (18.32 lbs)
- Aardwolf usually reaching 8.14 kgs (17.95 lbs)
- Eurasian otter usually reaching 8.86 kgs (19.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Culpeo
Also reaching around 72.4 cm (2′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Margay gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Ocelot gets as big as 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- Pampas fox gets as big as 62.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Günther’s dik-dik gets as big as 61.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Corsac fox gets as big as 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Mantled guereza gets as big as 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Tibetan sand fox gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Brown palm civet gets as big as 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Tonkean macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Tibetan macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)