It is hard to guess what a Brush rabbit weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani) on average weights 716 grams (1.58 lbs).
The Brush rabbit is from the family Leporidae (genus: Sylvilagus). It is usually born with about 27 grams (0.06 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.4 cm (1′ 0″). On average, Brush rabbits can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani), or western brush rabbit, or Californian brush rabbit, is a species of cottontail rabbit found in western coastal regions of North America, from the Columbia River in Oregon to the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. Its range extends as far east as the eastern sides of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges.
Animals of the same family as a Brush rabbit
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- African savanna hare bringing 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs) to the scale
- Swamp rabbit bringing 2.14 kilos (4.72 lbs) to the scale
- Black-tailed jackrabbit bringing 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs) to the scale
- Natal red rock hare bringing 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs) to the scale
- Omilteme cottontail bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern cottontail bringing 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs) to the scale
- Korean hare with a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Desert cottontail with a weight of 882 grams
- European hare bringing 3.82 kilos (8.42 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Brush rabbit
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sylvilagus bachmani:
- Ring-tailed vontsira bringing 815 grams to the scale
- New Guinean quoll bringing 611 grams to the scale
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat bringing 573 grams to the scale
- Variable pocket gopher bringing 615 grams to the scale
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog bringing 690 grams to the scale
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 665 grams to the scale
- Black-footed tree-rat bringing 716 grams to the scale
- David’s echymipera bringing 817 grams to the scale
- Mountain ground squirrel bringing 625 grams to the scale
- White-footed sportive lemur bringing 600 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Brush rabbit
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brush rabbit:
- Eastern woolly lemur with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a size of 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Coppery titi with a size of 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- San José brush rabbit with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Hispaniolan solenodon with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Muskrat with a size of 27.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brush rabbit
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Brush rabbit: