How many baby Rüppell’s foxs are in a litter?
A Rüppell’s fox (Vulpes rueppellii) usually gives birth to around 2 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 Rüppell’s fox grows up to a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″).
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.
Rüppell’s fox (Vulpes rueppellii), also spelled Rueppell’s fox, is a species of fox living in North Africa, the Middle East, and southwestern Asia. It is named after the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell. This fox is also called the “sand fox”, but this terminology is confusing because the corsac fox (V. corsac) and the Tibetan sand fox (V. ferrilata) are also known as “sand foxes”.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Rüppell’s fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- South American gray fox weighting around 6.34 kilograms (13.98 lbs)
- Bush dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red wolf with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Cape fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Corsac fox with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sechuran fox weighting around 4.23 kilograms (9.33 lbs)
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Black-backed jackal with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Wolf with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Rüppell’s fox
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Mexican vole
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Cinereus ringtail possum
- Collared tuco-tuco
- Leopard
- Tasmanian devil
- Eurasian otter
- Djoongari
- Spotted hyena
- Ochre bush squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Rüppell’s fox
What other animals weight around 3.25 kg (7.17 lbs)?
- Margay usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)
- White-sided jackrabbit usually reaching 2.61 kgs (5.75 lbs)
- Flat-headed cat usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Sand cat usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Philippine porcupine usually reaching 3.55 kgs (7.83 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Rüppell’s fox
Also reaching around 46 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Korean hare gets as big as 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Meller’s mongoose gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Marsh mongoose gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Pale fox gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Cape genet gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- American marten gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Small-toothed palm civet gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)