It is hard to guess what a Mountain cottontail weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttallii) on average weights 803 grams (1.77 lbs).
The Mountain cottontail is from the family Leporidae (genus: Sylvilagus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 32.4 cm (1′ 1″). On average, Mountain cottontails can have babies 3 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 mountain cottontail or Nuttall’s cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttallii) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It is found in Canada and the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain cottontail
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- Indian hare bringing 2.3 kilos (5.07 lbs) to the scale
- Jameson’s red rock hare bringing 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs) to the scale
- Black-tailed jackrabbit bringing 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs) to the scale
- Manchurian hare bringing 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs) to the scale
- Yunnan hare bringing 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed jackrabbit bringing 3.38 kilos (7.45 lbs) to the scale
- Brush rabbit with a weight of 716 grams
- Broom hare bringing 2.83 kilos (6.24 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
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain cottontail
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sylvilagus nuttallii:
- Meerkat bringing 730 grams to the scale
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale
- Bengal mongoose bringing 741 grams to the scale
- Sunda slow loris bringing 940 grams to the scale
- Indian flying fox bringing 822 grams to the scale
- Yellow-throated squirrel bringing 803 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded flying fox bringing 872 grams to the scale
- Yellow mongoose bringing 694 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Conover’s tuco-tuco bringing 860 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mountain cottontail
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain cottontail:
- Back-striped weasel with a size of 28.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- New Guinean quoll with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mexican prairie dog with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Eastern common cuscus with a size of 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with a size of 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Common kusimanse with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel with a size of 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Slender mongoose with a size of 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern quoll with a size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain cottontail
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Mountain cottontail: