It is hard to guess what a Cape fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cape fox (Vulpes chama) on average weights 2.92 kg (6.44 lbs).
The Cape fox is from the family Canidae (genus: Vulpes). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 53.4 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Cape foxs have 2 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 Cape fox (Vulpes chama), also called the asse, cama fox or the silver-backed fox, is a small fox, native to southern Africa. It is also called a South African version of a fennec fox due to their big ears.It has black or silver gray fur with flanks and underside in light yellow. The tip of its tail is always black.The Cape fox tends to be 45 to 61 cm (17.5 to 24 in) long, not including a 30 to 40 cm (12 to 15.5 in) tail. It is 28 to 33 cm (11 to 13 in) tall at the shoulder, and usually weighs from 3.6 to 5 kg (7.9 to 11.0 lb).
Animals of the same family as a Cape fox
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Sechuran fox bringing 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan sand fox bringing 5.54 kilos (12.21 lbs) to the scale
- Island fox bringing 1.92 kilos (4.23 lbs) to the scale
- Side-striped jackal bringing 10.4 kilos (22.93 lbs) to the scale
- Swift fox bringing 2.11 kilos (4.65 lbs) to the scale
- Rüppell’s fox bringing 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs) to the scale
- Bengal fox bringing 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs) to the scale
- Raccoon dog bringing 4.22 kilos (9.3 lbs) to the scale
- Blanford’s fox with a weight of 994 grams
- Wolf bringing 33.38 kilos (73.59 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Cape fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vulpes chama:
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with a weight of 2.81 kilos (6.19 lbs)
- Broom hare with a weight of 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs)
- Black bearded saki with a weight of 2.97 kilos (6.55 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose with a weight of 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs)
- Equatorial saki with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Lesser cane rat with a weight of 2.71 kilos (5.97 lbs)
- Asian palm civet with a weight of 3.2 kilos (7.05 lbs)
- Hoary bamboo rat with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti with a weight of 3.02 kilos (6.66 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Cape fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cape fox:
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with a size of 50.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Celebes crested macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-rumped agouti with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- White-sided jackrabbit with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Cozumel raccoon with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Riverine rabbit with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tres Marias raccoon with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Servaline genet with a size of 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cape fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Cape fox:
- Djoongari
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Buffy-tufted marmoset
- Stripe-necked mongoose
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- African wading rat
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Aardwolf
- Particolored flying squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cape fox
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cape fox:
- Saiga antelope with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Myotis vivesi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Bush dog with an average maximal age of 10.33 years
- Water deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Pacarana with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years