It is hard to guess what a Bengal fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis) on average weights 2.51 kg (5.54 lbs).
The Bengal fox is from the family Canidae (genus: Vulpes). It is usually born with about 58 grams (0.13 lbs). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 52.3 cm (1′ 9″). Usually, Bengal foxs have 3 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Bengal fox (Vulpes bengalensis), also known as the Indian fox, is a fox endemic to the Indian subcontinent and is found from the Himalayan foothills and Terai of Nepal through southern India and from southern and eastern Pakistan to eastern India and southeastern Bangladesh.
Animals of the same family as a Bengal fox
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Corsac fox bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
- Pale fox bringing 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) to the scale
- Black-backed jackal bringing 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs) to the scale
- Kit fox bringing 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs) to the scale
- Red fox bringing 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs) to the scale
- Short-eared dog bringing 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs) to the scale
- Ethiopian wolf bringing 14.38 kilos (31.7 lbs) to the scale
- Wolf bringing 33.38 kilos (73.59 lbs) to the scale
- Dhole bringing 15.85 kilos (34.94 lbs) to the scale
- Golden jackal bringing 9.67 kilos (21.32 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bengal fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vulpes bengalensis:
- Giant forest genet with a weight of 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit with a weight of 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs)
- Tufted capuchin with a weight of 2.76 kilos (6.08 lbs)
- Silver dik-dik with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Leopard cat with a weight of 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs)
- Lesser cane rat with a weight of 2.71 kilos (5.97 lbs)
- Common brown lemur with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Indian hare with a weight of 2.3 kilos (5.07 lbs)
- Pale fox with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Kinkajou with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bengal fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bengal fox:
- Philippine porcupine with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Kloss’s gibbon with a size of 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pampas cat with a size of 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Granada hare with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Gray fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Cape genet with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Olive colobus with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-throated guenon with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pygmy hog with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black capuchin with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bengal fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bengal fox:
- Silky pocket mouse
- Northern mole vole
- Large-eared tenrec
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Kinabalu squirrel
- Rajah spiny rat
- Graphiurus hueti
- Thylacine
- Southeastern shrew
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bengal fox
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bengal fox:
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Speke’s pectinator with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pichi with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Small Indian civet with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Little pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Least weasel with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Southern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Spectral tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years