It is hard to guess what a Eastern cottontail weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) on average weights 1.21 kg (2.67 lbs).
The Eastern cottontail is from the family Leporidae (genus: Sylvilagus). It is usually born with about 34 grams (0.07 lbs). They can live for up to 9 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37.2 cm (1′ 3″). On average, Eastern cottontails can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) is a New World cottontail rabbit, a member of the family Leporidae. It is the most common rabbit species in North America.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern cottontail
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- Cape hare bringing 2.05 kilos (4.52 lbs) to the scale
- San José brush rabbit with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Marsh rabbit bringing 1.36 kilos (3 lbs) to the scale
- Swamp rabbit bringing 2.14 kilos (4.72 lbs) to the scale
- Omilteme cottontail bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Hainan hare bringing 1.52 kilos (3.35 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain hare bringing 3.11 kilos (6.86 lbs) to the scale
- Amami rabbit with a size of 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Antelope jackrabbit bringing 3.93 kilos (8.66 lbs) to the scale
- Woolly hare bringing 2.47 kilos (5.45 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern cottontail
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sylvilagus floridanus:
- Eastern woolly lemur with a weight of 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs)
- Grandidier’s mongoose with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Atlantic titi with a weight of 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs)
- Bristle-spined rat with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
- Ring-tailed cat with a weight of 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs)
- Lemur-like ringtail possum bringing 997 grams to the scale
- Muskrat bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Hershkovitz’s titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eastern cottontail
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern cottontail:
- Dice’s cottontail with a size of 37.4 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tufted ground squirrel with a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Western white-eared giant rat with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Chinese hare with a size of 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Malayan weasel with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Gilbert’s potoroo with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Small dorcopsis with a size of 38.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern bettong with a size of 33.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern cottontail
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Eastern cottontail:
- Tropical pocket gopher
- Sand cat
- Bank vole
- Hoary marmot
- White-nosed coati
- Marsh rice rat
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
- Groundhog
- California vole
- Talas tuco-tuco
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern cottontail
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern cottontail:
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 9.75 years
- Whiskered bat with an average maximal age of 9.25 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Chacoan peccary with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Javan mongoose with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Common ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 10 years