How many baby Scrub hares are in a litter?
A Scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 5 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 38 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 98 grams (0.22 lbs) and measure 15.6 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Scrub hare grows up to a size of 49.5 cm (1′ 8″).
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 scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) is one of two subspecies of hares found in southern Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. Although it is listed as a least critical species, the population has been declining and is expected to decline by 20% until the year 2104. The species is endemic to southern Africa and has not been seen in any other geographic locations around the world.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Scrub hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Smith’s red rock hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Granada hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Korean hare raching a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Yarkand hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Abyssinian hare weighting around 2.02 kilograms (4.45 lbs)
- African savanna hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dice’s cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Burmese hare weighting around 2.27 kilograms (5 lbs)
- Swamp rabbit with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Scrub hare
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Green bush squirrel
- Caribbean monk seal
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Evening bat
- Amazonian manatee
- Kinkajou
- Venezuelan red howler
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Small bent-winged bat
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
Animals with the same weight as a Scrub hare
What other animals weight around 2.6 kg (5.73 lbs)?
- White-nosed saki usually reaching 2.8 kgs (6.17 lbs)
- Hoary marmot usually reaching 2.25 kgs (4.96 lbs)
- Quokka usually reaching 3.03 kgs (6.68 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
- Sanford’s brown lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
- Aye-aye usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Egyptian mongoose usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo usually reaching 2.81 kgs (6.19 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Virginia opossum usually reaching 2.46 kgs (5.42 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Scrub hare
Also reaching around 49.5 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Zanzibar red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Smith’s red rock hare gets as big as 43.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Royal antelope gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Burmese ferret-badger gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Venezuelan red howler gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Indian grey mongoose gets as big as 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Riverine rabbit gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Small-toothed palm civet gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Southern river otter gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)