How many baby Pygmy rabbits are in a litter?
A Pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 19 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.88 kg (12.96 lbs) and measure 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Brachylagus). An adult Pygmy rabbit grows up to a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 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 pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) is a North American rabbit, and is one of only two rabbit species in America to dig its own burrow. The pygmy rabbit differs significantly from species within either the Lepus (hare) or Sylvilagus (cottontail) genera and is generally considered to be within the monotypic genus Brachylagus. One isolated population, the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Federal government, though the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as lower risk.The pygmy rabbit is the world’s smallest leporid, which means adult weights from 375 to about 500 grams (0.827 to about 1.102 lb), and a body length from 23.5 to 29.5 centimeters (9.3 to 11.6 in); females are slightly larger than males. The pygmy rabbit is distinguishable from other leporids by its small size, short ears, gray color, small hind legs, and lack of whit fuzzy fur
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Pygmy rabbit is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Riverine rabbit with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black jackrabbit weighting around 1.27 kilograms (2.8 lbs)
- Mountain cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran striped rabbit weighting around 1.51 kilograms (3.33 lbs)
- Amami rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Abyssinian hare weighting around 2.02 kilograms (4.45 lbs)
- European hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- San José brush rabbit raching a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Robust cottontail raching a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals that share a litter size with Pygmy rabbit
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Southern red-backed vole
- Siberian chipmunk
- Mountain weasel
- Crowned shrew
- Speckled ground squirrel
- Hispid cotton rat
- Middendorf’s vole
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart
- Northern red-backed vole
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy rabbit
What other animals weight around 437 grams (0.96 lbs)?
- Squirrel-toothed rat weighting 511 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Collie’s squirrel weighting 498 grams
- Emperor tamarin weighting 409 grams
- Giant pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Volcano rabbit weighting 465 grams
- European ground squirrel weighting 396 grams
- Small flying fox weighting 434 grams
- Mexican gray squirrel weighting 456 grams
- Silky tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
Animals with the same size as a Pygmy rabbit
Also reaching around 26.5 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Abert’s squirrel gets as big as 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Guadalcanal rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Utah prairie dog gets as big as 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hagen’s flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mimic tree rat gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mentawai squirrel gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Giant golden mole gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Guyenne spiny rat gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large Luzon forest rat gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)