How many baby South African springhares are in a litter?
A South African springhare (Pedetes capensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 78 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 253 grams (0.56 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Pedetidae family (genus: Pedetes). An adult South African springhare grows up to a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 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 South African springhare (Pedetes capensis), or springhaas in Afrikaans, is not actually a hare, but a rodent. It is one of two extant species in the genus Pedetes, and is native to southern Africa. Formerly, the genus was considered monotypic and the East African springhare (P. surdaster) was included in P. capensis. Though the species look alike at a casual glance, scientific study can easily determine which is which.
Animals that share a litter size with South African springhare
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Jaguar
- Hammer-headed bat
- Black wallaroo
- Burchell’s zebra
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Subalpine woolly rat
- Greater musky fruit bat
- Tailed tailless bat
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Preuss’s monkey
Animals that get as old as a South African springhare
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14.5 years:
- Javan warty pig with 14 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Suni with 14 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 15.25 years
- Brazilian porcupine with 17.25 years
- California myotis with 15 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
- Rock hyrax with 14 years
- Pudú with 12.5 years
- Greater glider with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a South African springhare
What other animals weight around 2.55 kg (5.62 lbs)?
- Marbled cat usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
- Lesser cane rat usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit usually reaching 2.51 kgs (5.53 lbs)
- African brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
- Eastern falanouc usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Common brown lemur usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Crab-eating mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Kinkajou usually reaching 2.45 kgs (5.4 lbs)