How many baby Japanese hares are in a litter?
A Japanese hare (Lepus brachyurus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 38 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 67 grams (0.15 lbs) and measure 15.3 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Japanese hare grows up to a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″).
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 Japanese hare (Lepus brachyurus) is a species of hare native to Japan.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Japanese hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Omilteme cottontail weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- San José brush rabbit raching a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Volcano rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Natal red rock hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Granada hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Abyssinian hare weighting around 2.02 kilograms (4.45 lbs)
- Burmese hare weighting around 2.27 kilograms (5 lbs)
- Tapeti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African savanna hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yunnan hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Japanese hare
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Gray tree rat
- Tres Marías Island mouse
- Blanford’s rat
- Desert pocket mouse
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Saharan striped polecat
- Ruddy mongoose
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Buller’s chipmunk
- Natal multimammate mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Japanese hare
What other animals weight around 2.53 kg (5.57 lbs)?
- Silver dik-dik usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Virginia opossum usually reaching 2.46 kgs (5.42 lbs)
- Rock hyrax usually reaching 2.95 kgs (6.5 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti usually reaching 2.9 kgs (6.39 lbs)
- Yellow-throated marten usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Marbled cat usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
- White-sided jackrabbit usually reaching 2.61 kgs (5.75 lbs)
- Swift fox usually reaching 2.11 kgs (4.65 lbs)
- Indian hare usually reaching 2.3 kgs (5.07 lbs)
- Lesser cane rat usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Japanese hare
Also reaching around 49.9 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- White-thighed surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Lesser grison gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Cacomistle gets as big as 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Scrub hare gets as big as 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- François’ langur gets as big as 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Ethiopian highland hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Diana monkey gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)