How many baby Pampas foxs are in a litter?
A Pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 59 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 167 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Lycalopex). An adult Pampas fox grows up to a size of 61.9 cm (2′ 1″).
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 pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus), also known as grey pampean fox, pampas zorro, Azara’s fox, or Azara’s zorro (in Spanish also called aguará chaí, anglicized as aguarachay), is a medium-sized zorro, or “false” fox, native to the South American pampas. Azara in some of its alternative common names is a reference to Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Pampas fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Rüppell’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fennec fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bush dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan sand fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Cape fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red wolf with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sechuran fox weighting around 4.23 kilograms (9.33 lbs)
- Kit fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Island fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pampas fox
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Fat sand rat
- Damaraland mole-rat
- Gambian pouched rat
- Major’s pine vole
- Aztec mouse
- Lesser dwarf shrew
- Lesser red musk shrew
- Nelson’s pocket mouse
- Celebes warty pig
- Horsfield’s shrew
Animals that get as old as a Pampas fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.67 years:
- Dall sheep with 16 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
- Jungle cat with 12 years
- Common spotted cuscus with 11 years
- Iberian ibex with 16 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with 12 years
- Gerenuk with 13 years
- Microcebus coquereli with 15.25 years
- Leopard cat with 15 years
- Black-striped wallaby with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pampas fox
What other animals weight around 4.54 kg (10.01 lbs)?
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey usually reaching 5.14 kgs (11.33 lbs)
- Otter civet usually reaching 4.25 kgs (9.37 lbs)
- De Brazza’s monkey usually reaching 5.32 kgs (11.73 lbs)
- Masked palm civet usually reaching 4.3 kgs (9.48 lbs)
- Alaskan hare usually reaching 4.85 kgs (10.69 lbs)
- Brown dorcopsis usually reaching 5.39 kgs (11.88 lbs)
- Royal antelope usually reaching 3.9 kgs (8.6 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Maned sloth usually reaching 4.47 kgs (9.85 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pampas fox
Also reaching around 61.9 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Mentawai langur gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Suni gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Alaskan hare gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Marine otter gets as big as 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Black crested gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern muriqui gets as big as 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bay cat gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pallas’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Fossa (animal) gets as big as 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)