How many baby Yarkand hares are in a litter?
A Yarkand hare (Lepus yarkandensis) 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 90 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 15.6 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Yarkand hare grows up to a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″).
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 Yarkand hare (Lepus yarkandensis) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It has soft, straight, sandy brown dorsal pelage which has grayish-black stripes, and completely white ventral pelage. Endemic to China, the Yarkand hare is restricted to the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, China. It is mainly nocturnal, and forages on grass and crops. The female produces two or three litters annually, each consisting of two to five young. It is rated as near threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Endangered Species and by the Red List of China’s Vertebrates. However, Chinese geneticists have stated the species is “endangered” due to limited habitat and its fragmentation, and over-hunting and poaching.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Yarkand hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Tres Marias rabbit weighting only 964 grams
- Black jackrabbit weighting around 1.27 kilograms (2.8 lbs)
- Hainan hare weighting around 1.52 kilograms (3.35 lbs)
- Pygmy rabbit with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Manzano Mountain cottontail raching a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Amami rabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cape hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- European hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Manchurian hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Yarkand hare
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Aztec mouse
- Ring-tailed cat
- Altai birch mouse
- Desert hedgehog
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Juniper vole
- Yellow-throated marten
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse
- Tyler’s mouse opossum
Animals with the same weight as a Yarkand hare
What other animals weight around 1.47 kg (3.23 lbs)?
- Black giant squirrel usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Alexander’s kusimanse usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Northern brown bandicoot usually reaching 1.51 kgs (3.33 lbs)
- Servaline genet usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Sable usually reaching 1.17 kgs (2.58 lbs)
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Gilbert’s potoroo usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Boodie usually reaching 1.45 kgs (3.2 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.69 kgs (3.73 lbs)
- Seven-banded armadillo usually reaching 1.53 kgs (3.37 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Yarkand hare
Also reaching around 39 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Malayan weasel gets as big as 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Giant otter shrew gets as big as 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-nosed echymipera gets as big as 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Chinese pangolin gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Subalpine woolly rat gets as big as 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Haussa genet gets as big as 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Tres Marias rabbit gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)