How many baby Hoary foxs are in a litter?
A Hoary fox (Pseudalopex vetulus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
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 Hoary 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 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:
- Sechuran fox weighting around 4.23 kilograms (9.33 lbs)
- Dhole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pale fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African wild dog with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sechuran fox weighting around 4.23 kilograms (9.33 lbs)
- Golden jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hoary fox
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Hoary bamboo rat
- Père David’s mole
- Neotropical otter
- Indian long-eared hedgehog
- Woolly hare
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
- Ungava collared lemming
- Geoxus valdivianus
- Woodland thicket rat
Animals with the same weight as a Hoary fox
What other animals weight around 4.23 kg (9.33 lbs)?
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
- White-throated guenon usually reaching 3.44 kgs (7.58 lbs)
- White-tailed mongoose usually reaching 3.66 kgs (8.07 lbs)
- Blue monkey usually reaching 5.04 kgs (11.11 lbs)
- Alaskan hare usually reaching 4.85 kgs (10.69 lbs)
- White-nosed coati usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Blue duiker usually reaching 4.9 kgs (10.8 lbs)
- Long-tailed marmot usually reaching 4.35 kgs (9.59 lbs)
- Chinese pangolin usually reaching 4.67 kgs (10.3 lbs)
- Arctic fox usually reaching 3.58 kgs (7.89 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hoary fox
Also reaching around 60.3 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Swift fox gets as big as 50.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik gets as big as 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Culpeo gets as big as 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- Diademed sifaka gets as big as 50.1 cm (1′ 8″)
- Philippine porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Dusky leaf monkey gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bald uakari gets as big as 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Assam macaque gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)