How many baby Kit foxs are in a litter?
A Kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 69 grams (0.15 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes). An adult Kit fox grows up to a size of 56.4 cm (1′ 11″).
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 kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) is a fox species of North America. Its range is primarily in the Southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico. Some mammalogists classify it as conspecific with the swift fox, V. velox, but molecular systematics imply that the two species are distinct. It has also been called an American Fennec fox due to its large ears.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Kit fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Cape fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bush dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Falkland Islands wolf raching a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Island fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Maned wolf with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Raccoon dog with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Kit fox
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Groundhog
- Panamint chipmunk
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Libyan jird
- San Joaquin pocket mouse
- Western harvest mouse
- White-nosed coati
- Lesser capybara
- Culpeo
- Southern African hedgehog
Animals that get as old as a Kit fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Large Indian civet with 20 years
- Iberian ibex with 16 years
- Bohor reedbuck with 18 years
- Buru babirusa with 24 years
- Lesser kudu with 18.92 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
- Servaline genet with 17 years
- Chamois with 22 years
- Striped hyena with 24 years
- Blue wildebeest with 21.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Kit fox
What other animals weight around 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs)?
- Greater mouse-deer usually reaching 5.25 kgs (11.57 lbs)
- Blue duiker usually reaching 4.9 kgs (10.8 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby usually reaching 5.28 kgs (11.64 lbs)
- Brown dorcopsis usually reaching 5.39 kgs (11.88 lbs)
- Northern tamandua usually reaching 4.11 kgs (9.06 lbs)
- Nine-banded armadillo usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey usually reaching 5.14 kgs (11.33 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter usually reaching 4.18 kgs (9.22 lbs)
- Diana monkey usually reaching 4.36 kgs (9.61 lbs)