How many baby Pale foxs are in a litter?
A Pale fox (Vulpes pallida) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6.09 kg (13.42 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes). An adult Pale fox grows up to a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″).
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 pale fox (Vulpes pallida) is a species of fox found in the band of African Sahel from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east. It is one of the least studied of all canid species, in part due to its remote habitat and its sandy coat that blends in well with the desert-like terrain.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Pale fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Arctic fox with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Raccoon dog with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Red fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
- Cape fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Side-striped jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bat-eared fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sechuran fox weighting around 4.23 kilograms (9.33 lbs)
- Gray fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pale fox
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
- Ornate shrew
- Pygmy spotted skunk
- North American least shrew
- Long-tailed giant rat
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse
- Sonoma chipmunk
- New Holland mouse
- Thomas’s pine vole
- Lesser capybara
Animals that get as old as a Pale fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Striped possum with 9.58 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 8 years
- Golden hamster with 10 years
- Myotis vivesi with 10 years
- Oncilla with 10 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 11.25 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat with 10 years
- Black giant squirrel with 10.08 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with 12 years
- Southern tamandua with 9 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pale fox
What other animals weight around 2.8 kg (6.17 lbs)?
- Bates’s pygmy antelope usually reaching 2.96 kgs (6.53 lbs)
- Short-eared possum usually reaching 3.13 kgs (6.9 lbs)
- Golden palm civet usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit usually reaching 2.51 kgs (5.53 lbs)
- South African springhare usually reaching 2.55 kgs (5.62 lbs)
- Ring-tailed lemur usually reaching 2.63 kgs (5.8 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Broom hare usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pale fox
Also reaching around 43 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Mentawai langur gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- European wildcat gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Bahamian raccoon gets as big as 46.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Six-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- David’s echymipera gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Platypus gets as big as 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- Yarkand hare gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Common opossum gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)