It is hard to guess what a Bunyoro rabbit weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bunyoro rabbit (Poelagus marjorita) on average weights 2.51 kg (5.53 lbs).
The Bunyoro rabbit is from the family Leporidae (genus: Poelagus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 47 cm (1′ 7″). Usually, Bunyoro rabbits have 1 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 Bunyoro rabbit or Central African rabbit (Poelagus marjorita) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It is monotypic within the genus Poelagus. It is found in central Africa and its typical habitat is damp savannah, often with rocky outcrops.
Animals of the same family as a Bunyoro rabbit
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- Mountain cottontail with a weight of 803 grams
- Smith’s red rock hare bringing 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese hare bringing 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) to the scale
- Alaskan hare bringing 4.85 kilos (10.69 lbs) to the scale
- Cape hare bringing 2.05 kilos (4.52 lbs) to the scale
- White-sided jackrabbit bringing 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs) to the scale
- Antelope jackrabbit bringing 3.93 kilos (8.66 lbs) to the scale
- European hare bringing 3.82 kilos (8.42 lbs) to the scale
- African savanna hare bringing 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs) to the scale
- Ethiopian highland hare bringing 2.77 kilos (6.11 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bunyoro rabbit
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Poelagus marjorita:
- Sand cat with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with a weight of 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs)
- Northern common cuscus with a weight of 2.33 kilos (5.14 lbs)
- Swift fox with a weight of 2.11 kilos (4.65 lbs)
- Kalinowski’s agouti with a weight of 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs)
- Golden palm civet with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
- Common brown lemur with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Dusky pademelon with a weight of 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs)
- White-nosed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with a weight of 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bunyoro rabbit
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bunyoro rabbit:
- Banded palm civet with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pig-tailed langur with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Sechuran fox with a size of 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pig-tailed langur with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- American badger with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Mountain hare with a size of 50.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Hoolock gibbon with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Common brown lemur with a size of 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Plains viscacha with a size of 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bunyoro rabbit
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bunyoro rabbit: