It is hard to guess what a Omilteme cottontail weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Omilteme cottontail (Sylvilagus insonus) on average weights 3 kg (6.61 lbs).
The Omilteme cottontail is from the family Leporidae (genus: Sylvilagus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 39.2 cm (1′ 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 Omilteme cottontail (Sylvilagus insonus) is a cottontail rabbit found only in the state of Guerrero, Mexico in the mountain range of Sierra Madre del Sur. Belonging to the family Leporidae, it is one of fourteen species in the genus Sylvilagus, a genus restricted to the New World. The Omilteme cottontail is considered one of the most endangered rabbit species in the world and is only known and been described by very few specimens.
Animals of the same family as a Omilteme cottontail
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- African savanna hare bringing 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs) to the scale
- Cape hare bringing 2.05 kilos (4.52 lbs) to the scale
- Sumatran striped rabbit bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Indian hare bringing 2.3 kilos (5.07 lbs) to the scale
- San José brush rabbit with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mountain hare bringing 3.11 kilos (6.86 lbs) to the scale
- Hispid hare bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Snowshoe hare bringing 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) to the scale
- Robust cottontail with a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit bringing 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Omilteme cottontail
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sylvilagus insonus:
- White-sided jackrabbit with a weight of 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs)
- Marbled cat with a weight of 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs)
- Flat-headed cat with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)
- White-tailed jackrabbit with a weight of 3.38 kilos (7.45 lbs)
- Eastern hare-wallaby with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a weight of 3.4 kilos (7.5 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 2.58 kilos (5.69 lbs)
- Virginia opossum with a weight of 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat with a weight of 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Omilteme cottontail
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Omilteme cottontail:
- Palawan stink badger with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Chinese pangolin with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Brazilian porcupine with a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Cuban solenodon with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black bearded saki with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Liberian mongoose with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Atlantic titi with a size of 36.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Common opossum with a size of 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern common cuscus with a size of 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)