How many baby Hispid hares are in a litter?
A Hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 40 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.92 kg (4.24 lbs) and measure 37.5 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Caprolagus). An adult Hispid hare grows up to a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″).
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 hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus), also called Assam rabbit and bristly rabbit, is a leporid native to South Asia, whose historic range extended along the southern foothills of the Himalayas. Today, its habitat is highly fragmented with an area of occupancy estimated at less than 500 km2 (190 sq mi) extending over an area of 5,000 to 20,000 km2 (1,900 to 7,700 sq mi). Populations experienced a continuing decline in suitable habitat due to increasing agriculture, flood control, and human development. It is therefore listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1986.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Hispid hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Jameson’s red rock hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Granada hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African savanna hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black jackrabbit weighting around 1.27 kilograms (2.8 lbs)
- Eastern cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Amami rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Abyssinian hare weighting around 2.02 kilograms (4.45 lbs)
- Volcano rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tapeti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hispid hare
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
- Egyptian mongoose
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Irenomys
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
- Heath mouse
- Plains rat
- Greater red musk shrew
- Gray fox
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Hispid hare
What other animals weight around 2.5 kg (5.51 lbs)?
- Japanese hare usually reaching 2.53 kgs (5.58 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s cat usually reaching 2.73 kgs (6.02 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Nilgiri marten usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit usually reaching 2.42 kgs (5.34 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur usually reaching 2.03 kgs (4.48 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)
- Silky cuscus usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Dusky pademelon usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Pale fox usually reaching 2.8 kgs (6.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hispid hare
Also reaching around 46 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- African brush-tailed porcupine gets as big as 43.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Servaline genet gets as big as 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Haussa genet gets as big as 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Fennec fox gets as big as 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Platypus gets as big as 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- Cacomistle gets as big as 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Palawan stink badger gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Northern olingo gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)