How many baby Tibetan sand foxs are in a litter?
A Tibetan sand fox (Vulpes ferrilata) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 54 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 90 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes). An adult Tibetan sand fox grows up to a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″).
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 Tibetan sand fox (Vulpes ferrilata) is a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau, Ladakh plateau, Nepal, China, Sikkim, and Bhutan, up to altitudes of about 5,300 m (17,400 ft). It is listed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List, on account of its widespread range in the Tibetan Plateau’s steppes and semi-deserts.It is sometimes referred to as the Tibetan fox, or simply as the sand fox, but this terminology is confusing because the corsac fox (Vulpes corsac), which lives in arid environments north and west of the Tibetan Plateau, is often called the “sand fox” or “Tibetan fox” as well. The Rüppell’s fox (Vulpes rueppellii) is also known as the “sand fox”, but is native to arid desert regions of North Africa and Middle East.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Tibetan sand fox is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Falkland Islands wolf raching a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Cape fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bush dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Side-striped jackal with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Swift fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Coyote with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian wolf weighting around 14.38 kilograms (31.7 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Tibetan sand fox
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Lesser mole-rat
- Crosse’s shrew
- Plains pocket gopher
- Hispid pocket mouse
- Swamp rabbit
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat
- Hairy harvest mouse
- Amazonian marsh rat
- Bengal fox
- Cape golden mole
Animals with the same weight as a Tibetan sand fox
What other animals weight around 5.54 kg (12.22 lbs)?
- Black crested mangabey usually reaching 6.51 kgs (14.35 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus usually reaching 6 kgs (13.23 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine usually reaching 4.49 kgs (9.9 lbs)
- Red fox usually reaching 4.83 kgs (10.65 lbs)
- Vancouver Island marmot usually reaching 5.24 kgs (11.55 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Brown’s pademelon usually reaching 5.48 kgs (12.08 lbs)
- Kloss’s gibbon usually reaching 5.84 kgs (12.87 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Greater mouse-deer usually reaching 5.25 kgs (11.57 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tibetan sand fox
Also reaching around 60.2 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Tayra gets as big as 61.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Crab-eating mongoose gets as big as 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- American badger gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo gets as big as 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Agile gibbon gets as big as 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Marsh mongoose gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Corsac fox gets as big as 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tana River red colobus gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)