How many baby White-tailed jackrabbits are in a litter?
A White-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 12 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 40 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 90 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 15.6 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult White-tailed jackrabbit grows up to a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″).
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-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii), also known as the prairie hare and the white jack, is a species of hare found in western North America. Like all hares and rabbits, it is a member of the family Leporidae of order Lagomorpha. It is a solitary individual except where several males court a female in the breeding season. Litters of four to five young are born in a form, a shallow depression in the ground, hidden among vegetation. This jackrabbit has two described subspecies: L. townsendii townsendii occurring west of the Rocky Mountains and L. townsendii campanius occurring east of the Rocky Mountains.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
White-tailed jackrabbit is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Amami rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hainan hare weighting around 1.52 kilograms (3.35 lbs)
- Mountain hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Granada hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- European hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Riverine rabbit with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Korean hare raching a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tres Marias rabbit weighting only 964 grams
- Woolly hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with White-tailed jackrabbit
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Olympic marmot
- Libyan jird
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Alpine marmot
- Indian gerbil
- Gunnison’s prairie dog
- Dhole
- Boehm’s gerbil
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat
- Mexican prairie dog
Animals that get as old as a White-tailed jackrabbit
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8 years:
- Common kusimanse with 9 years
- Florida mouse with 7.33 years
- Black dorcopsis with 8 years
- North African hedgehog with 7 years
- Dice’s cottontail with 9 years
- Moonrat with 7 years
- American hog-nosed skunk with 7 years
- Pallid bat with 9.08 years
- Marbled polecat with 8.92 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with 6.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a White-tailed jackrabbit
What other animals weight around 3.38 kg (7.44 lbs)?
- Western tree hyrax usually reaching 3.18 kgs (7.01 lbs)
- Brown-throated sloth usually reaching 4 kgs (8.82 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 3.37 kgs (7.43 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo usually reaching 2.81 kgs (6.19 lbs)
- Grivet usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
- Booted macaque usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Verreaux’s sifaka usually reaching 3.61 kgs (7.96 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose usually reaching 3.6 kgs (7.94 lbs)
- European hare usually reaching 3.82 kgs (8.42 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-tailed jackrabbit
Also reaching around 51.3 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Angolan genet gets as big as 47.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Woolly flying squirrel gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- François’ langur gets as big as 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Riverine rabbit gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Brown palm civet gets as big as 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black-headed spider monkey gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Scrub hare gets as big as 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)