How many baby Mexican cottontails are in a litter?
A Mexican cottontail (Sylvilagus cunicularius) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Sylvilagus). An adult Mexican cottontail grows up to a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″).
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 Mexican cottontail (Sylvilagus cunicularius) is a species of cottontail rabbit in the family Leporidae. It is endemic to Mexico where its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests and pastureland.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Mexican cottontail is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Scrub hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Burmese hare weighting around 2.27 kilograms (5 lbs)
- Omilteme cottontail weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Riverine rabbit with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yarkand hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Abyssinian hare weighting around 2.02 kilograms (4.45 lbs)
- Korean hare raching a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Chinese hare weighting around 1.61 kilograms (3.55 lbs)
- Robust cottontail raching a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals that share a litter size with Mexican cottontail
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Dusky hopping mouse
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Pinyon mouse
- Sado mole
- Himalayan field rat
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Woodland dormouse
- Lesser white-toothed shrew
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican cottontail
What other animals weight around 2.49 kg (5.49 lbs)?
- Eastern falanouc usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Granada hare usually reaching 2.33 kgs (5.14 lbs)
- Common brushtail possum usually reaching 2.69 kgs (5.93 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.58 kgs (5.69 lbs)
- Burmese hare usually reaching 2.27 kgs (5 lbs)
- Rock hyrax usually reaching 2.95 kgs (6.5 lbs)
- Natal red rock hare usually reaching 2.42 kgs (5.34 lbs)
- Silky cuscus usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mexican cottontail
Also reaching around 43.5 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- White-throated guenon gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Chinese ferret-badger gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Javan surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Banded mongoose gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black crested mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Woodlark cuscus gets as big as 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Coypu gets as big as 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)