How many baby White-sided jackrabbits are in a litter?
A White-sided jackrabbit (Lepus callotis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 84 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 14 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult White-sided jackrabbit grows up to a size of 48.8 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 white-sided jackrabbit (Lepus callotis), also known as the Mexican hare, is a jackrabbit found in a limited range in North America, from southern New Mexico to northwestern and central Mexico. The animal is considered threatened in New Mexico, with its numbers in decline in recent years.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
White-sided jackrabbit is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Tolai hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese hare weighting around 1.61 kilograms (3.55 lbs)
- Japanese hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Yarkand hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- European hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- San José brush rabbit raching a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Alaskan hare with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Antelope jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Volcano rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian highland hare weighting around 2.77 kilograms (6.11 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with White-sided jackrabbit
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Lundomys
- White-tailed mongoose
- Nilgiri striped squirrel
- Striped hyena
- Bushy-tailed jird
- Southern Plains woodrat
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Eastern common cuscus
Animals with the same weight as a White-sided jackrabbit
What other animals weight around 2.61 kg (5.75 lbs)?
- Aye-aye usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Crab-eating mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti usually reaching 2.9 kgs (6.39 lbs)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope usually reaching 2.96 kgs (6.53 lbs)
- Leopard cat usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Red lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
- Japanese hare usually reaching 2.53 kgs (5.58 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Eastern hare-wallaby usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Kodkod usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-sided jackrabbit
Also reaching around 48.8 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Thick-spined porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Rio Tapajós saki gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Grivet gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Maroon leaf monkey gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Coypu gets as big as 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Swift fox gets as big as 50.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Common brown lemur gets as big as 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)