How many baby Smith’s red rock hares are in a litter?
A Smith’s red rock hare (Pronolagus rupestris) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 212 grams (0.47 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Pronolagus). An adult Smith’s red rock hare grows up to a size of 43.8 cm (1′ 6″).
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.
Smith’s red rock hare (Pronolagus rupestris) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae (rabbits and hares), and is the smallest member of the genus Pronolagus. The upperparts and gular collar are reddish brown in colour. It has warm, brown, grizzled, thicker hairs at the back of the body, and white to tawny, thinner underfur. It is endemic to Africa, found in parts of Kenya (Rift Valley), Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rhodesia, South Africa (Northern Cape, Free State, and North West), Tanzania and Zambia. It is a folivore, and usually forages on grasses (such as sprouting grass), shrubs and herbs. It breeds from September to February, and the female litters one or two offspring. Being a leporid, the hare’s offspring is called a leveret, or leverets (plural). The young leave the nest at three years of age. In 1996, it was rated as a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Smith’s red rock hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- White-tailed jackrabbit with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Abyssinian hare weighting around 2.02 kilograms (4.45 lbs)
- Manchurian hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian highland hare weighting around 2.77 kilograms (6.11 lbs)
- European rabbit with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Manzano Mountain cottontail raching a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Hispid hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Riverine rabbit with 1 babies per pregnancy
- New England cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Smith’s red rock hare
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Crested porcupine
- Pampas cat
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Buffy-headed marmoset
- Murree vole
- Lesser bamboo rat
- San Lorenzo mouse
- Stripe-necked mongoose
- Geoffroy’s tamarin
- Lusitanian pine vole
Animals with the same weight as a Smith’s red rock hare
What other animals weight around 2.25 kg (4.96 lbs)?
- Virginia opossum usually reaching 2.46 kgs (5.42 lbs)
- Hoary marmot usually reaching 2.25 kgs (4.96 lbs)
- Banded hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.94 kgs (4.28 lbs)
- Mexican cottontail usually reaching 2.49 kgs (5.49 lbs)
- South African springhare usually reaching 2.55 kgs (5.62 lbs)
- Burmese ferret-badger usually reaching 1.85 kgs (4.08 lbs)
- Long-footed potoroo usually reaching 1.84 kgs (4.06 lbs)
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Corsac fox usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)
- Striped skunk usually reaching 2.4 kgs (5.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Smith’s red rock hare
Also reaching around 43.8 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Ring-tailed lemur gets as big as 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Long-footed potoroo gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Angolan talapoin gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- European rabbit gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Woodlark cuscus gets as big as 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Moustached guenon gets as big as 52 cm (1′ 9″)
- Striped skunk gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Blanford’s fox gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)