How many baby Woolly hares are in a litter?
A Woolly hare (Lepus oiostolus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 123 grams (0.27 lbs) and measure 14 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Woolly hare grows up to a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″).
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 woolly hare (Lepus oiostolus) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It is found in western and central China, Northern India and Nepal where its typical habitat is montane grassland. It has a wide range and is present in some protected areas but is a generally uncommon species; the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Woolly hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- European rabbit with 5 babies per pregnancy
- White-sided jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tres Marias rabbit weighting only 964 grams
- Robust cottontail raching a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Abyssinian hare weighting around 2.02 kilograms (4.45 lbs)
- Chinese hare weighting around 1.61 kilograms (3.55 lbs)
- Riverine rabbit with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican cottontail with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yarkand hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
- New England cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Woolly hare
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- True’s shrew mole
- Asian house shrew
- Juniper vole
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
- Mexican cottontail
- Zacatecan deer mouse
- Stella wood mouse
- North African hedgehog
- Western red-backed vole
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Woolly hare
What other animals weight around 2.47 kg (5.45 lbs)?
- Subalpine woolly rat usually reaching 1.99 kgs (4.39 lbs)
- Nilgiri marten usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Kinkajou usually reaching 2.45 kgs (5.4 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.61 kgs (5.75 lbs)
- African palm civet usually reaching 2.17 kgs (4.78 lbs)
- South African springhare usually reaching 2.55 kgs (5.62 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Palawan stink badger usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Abyssinian hare usually reaching 2.02 kgs (4.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Woolly hare
Also reaching around 46.5 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Mexican cottontail gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Nine-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Sarcophilus laniarius gets as big as 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Common brushtail possum gets as big as 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)
- Olive colobus gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Riverine rabbit gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Kinkajou gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)