How many baby Gray foxs are in a litter?
A Gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 61 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 104 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 8.4 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Urocyon). An adult Gray fox grows up to a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″).
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 gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), or grey fox, is an omnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, widespread throughout North America and Central America. This species and its only congener, the diminutive island fox (Urocyon littoralis) of the California Channel Islands, are the only living members of the genus Urocyon, which is considered to be the most basal of the living canids. Though it was once the most common fox in the eastern United States, and still is found there, human advancement and deforestation allowed the red fox to become more dominant. The Pacific States still have the gray fox as a dominant. It is the only American canid that can climb trees. Its specific epithet cinereoargenteus means “ashen silver”.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Gray fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Dhole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- South American gray fox weighting around 6.34 kilograms (13.98 lbs)
- African wild dog with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Red wolf with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Swift fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bat-eared fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan sand fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black-backed jackal with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sechuran fox weighting around 4.23 kilograms (9.33 lbs)
- Red fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gray fox
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Small Indian civet
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Large mole
- Ungava collared lemming
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Black-tailed dasyure
- Slender squirrel
- Common punaré
- Emin’s gerbil
Animals that get as old as a Gray fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Yellow-bellied glider with 16 years
- Northern bat with 15.5 years
- La Plata dolphin with 16 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
- White-nosed coati with 17.67 years
- Northern flying squirrel with 13 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Menzbier’s marmot with 15 years
- Microcebus coquereli with 15.25 years
- Grey long-eared bat with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gray fox
What other animals weight around 3.83 kg (8.45 lbs)?
- Campbell’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.63 kgs (8 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Black agouti usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Otter civet usually reaching 4.25 kgs (9.37 lbs)
- Groundhog usually reaching 3.88 kgs (8.55 lbs)
- Alpine marmot usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Mona monkey usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Bay cat usually reaching 3.43 kgs (7.56 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 4.12 kgs (9.08 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gray fox
Also reaching around 60.3 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Mentawai langur gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pampas cat gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Ethiopian highland hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Blue duiker gets as big as 69.2 cm (2′ 4″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo gets as big as 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Red-flanked duiker gets as big as 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Stump-tailed macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Crested servaline genet gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Guatemalan black howler gets as big as 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)