How many baby Hoary foxs are in a litter?
A Hoary fox (Lycalopex vetulus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 167 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Lycalopex). An adult Hoary fox grows up to a size of 60 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 hoary fox or hoary zorro (Lycalopex vetulus), also known as raposinha-do-campo in Brazil (Portuguese for “meadow fox”), is a species of zorro or “false” fox endemic to Brazil. Unlike many other foxes, it feeds primarily on small invertebrates such as insects.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Hoary fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Arctic fox with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Red fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Black-backed jackal with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Raccoon dog with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Side-striped jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Gray fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African wild dog with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Coyote with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan sand fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hoary fox
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Egyptian mongoose
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Japanese mountain mole
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
- Beech marten
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Wagner’s gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Hoary fox
What other animals weight around 4.23 kg (9.33 lbs)?
- Unadorned rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.56 kgs (10.05 lbs)
- Parma wallaby usually reaching 4.16 kgs (9.17 lbs)
- South American coati usually reaching 3.78 kgs (8.33 lbs)
- Pale-throated sloth usually reaching 4.33 kgs (9.55 lbs)
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter usually reaching 4.18 kgs (9.22 lbs)
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.57 kgs (10.08 lbs)
- Royal antelope usually reaching 3.9 kgs (8.6 lbs)
- Brown palm civet usually reaching 3.55 kgs (7.83 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hoary fox
Also reaching around 60 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Black-footed mongoose gets as big as 61.3 cm (2′ 1″)
- Stump-tailed macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Ursine colobus gets as big as 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Black howler gets as big as 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Proboscis monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Pampas cat gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Javan surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Egyptian mongoose gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Formosan rock macaque gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Gray fox gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)