It is hard to guess what a Pale fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pale fox (Vulpes pallida) on average weights 2.8 kg (6.17 lbs).
The Pale fox is from the family Canidae (genus: Vulpes). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 43 cm (1′ 5″). Usually, Pale foxs have 4 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 pale fox (Vulpes pallida) is a species of fox found in the band of African Sahel from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east. It is one of the least studied of all canid species, in part due to its remote habitat and its sandy coat that blends in well with the desert-like terrain.
Animals of the same family as a Pale fox
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Culpeo bringing 8.62 kilos (19 lbs) to the scale
- Cape fox bringing 2.92 kilos (6.44 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan sand fox bringing 5.54 kilos (12.21 lbs) to the scale
- Black-backed jackal bringing 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs) to the scale
- Sechuran fox bringing 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas fox bringing 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs) to the scale
- Maned wolf bringing 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs) to the scale
- Culpeo bringing 8.62 kilos (19 lbs) to the scale
- Wolf bringing 33.38 kilos (73.59 lbs) to the scale
- Red wolf bringing 26.7 kilos (58.86 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Pale fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vulpes pallida:
- Red-rumped agouti with a weight of 3.02 kilos (6.66 lbs)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with a weight of 3.24 kilos (7.14 lbs)
- Mountain hare with a weight of 3.11 kilos (6.86 lbs)
- Margay with a weight of 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s cat with a weight of 2.73 kilos (6.02 lbs)
- Common brown lemur with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Bengal fox with a weight of 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs)
- Small Indian civet with a weight of 2.95 kilos (6.5 lbs)
- Golden-backed uakari with a weight of 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs)
- Aye-aye with a weight of 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pale fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pale fox:
- Steppe polecat with a size of 43.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Brown howler with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Peruvian spider monkey with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Red-bellied lemur with a size of 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Raffles’ banded langur with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Silky cuscus with a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Golden palm civet with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pale fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Pale fox:
- Long-tailed giant rat
- Gerbil mouse
- Madras treeshrew
- Andean vesper mouse
- Indian gerbil
- Gray-collared chipmunk
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat
- Wild boar
- Utah prairie dog
- North African gerbil
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pale fox
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pale fox:
- Long-footed potoroo with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Black giant squirrel with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Kodkod with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Parti-coloured bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Cape gray mongoose with an average maximal age of 8.67 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Black duiker with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- African wild dog with an average maximal age of 11 years