How many baby Yunnan hares are in a litter?
A Yunnan hare (Lepus comus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 114 grams (0.25 lbs) and measure 14 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Lepus). An adult Yunnan hare grows up to a size of 47 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 Yunnan hare (Lepus comus) is a medium-sized species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It has soft, flat, and long dorsal pelage which is grayish brown or dark gray in color, and whitish ventral pelage. It was considered endemic to China (mainly in Yunnan), but its presence was recorded in northern Myanmar in 2000. It is a herbivore, and forages on shrubs and forbs. It is rated as a species of least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Endangered Species. The Red List of China’s Vertebrates has listed the Yunnan hare as near threatened, almost meeting the criteria to be listed as vulnerable.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Yunnan hare is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- Swamp rabbit with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran striped rabbit weighting around 1.51 kilograms (3.33 lbs)
- European rabbit with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Granada hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian highland hare weighting around 2.77 kilograms (6.11 lbs)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tapeti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-sided jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly hare with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Yunnan hare
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Mexican small-eared shrew
- True’s shrew mole
- Alston’s brown mouse
- Champion’s tree mouse
- Tayra
- Hoary bat
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Aardwolf
- Red acouchi
- Malayan tree rat
Animals with the same weight as a Yunnan hare
What other animals weight around 2.02 kg (4.45 lbs)?
- Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Meller’s mongoose usually reaching 2.24 kgs (4.94 lbs)
- Java mouse-deer usually reaching 1.88 kgs (4.14 lbs)
- Hoary marmot usually reaching 2.25 kgs (4.96 lbs)
- Striped skunk usually reaching 2.4 kgs (5.29 lbs)
- Crested servaline genet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Stripe-necked mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Rio Tapajós saki usually reaching 2.31 kgs (5.09 lbs)
- Nilgiri marten usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Island fox usually reaching 1.92 kgs (4.23 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Yunnan hare
Also reaching around 47 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Amami rabbit gets as big as 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Ring-tailed lemur gets as big as 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Common spotted cuscus gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Bald uakari gets as big as 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- European hare gets as big as 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Rhesus macaque gets as big as 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Large-spotted civet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)