It is hard to guess what a Pampas fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pampas fox (Pseudalopex gymnocercus) on average weights 4.54 kg (10.01 lbs).
The Pampas fox is from the family Canidae (genus: Pseudalopex). They can live for up to 13.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 62.2 cm (2′ 1″). Usually, Pampas foxs have 3 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 pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus), also known as grey pampean fox, pampas zorro, Azara’s fox, or Azara’s zorro (in Spanish also called aguará chaí, anglicized as aguarachay), is a medium-sized zorro, or “false” fox, native to the South American pampas. Azara in some of its alternative common names is a reference to Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.
Animals of the same family as a Pampas fox
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Sechuran fox bringing 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) to the scale
- Gray fox bringing 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs) to the scale
- Island fox bringing 1.92 kilos (4.23 lbs) to the scale
- Blanford’s fox with a weight of 994 grams
- Fennec fox bringing 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs) to the scale
- Bush dog bringing 6.32 kilos (13.93 lbs) to the scale
- Short-eared dog bringing 8.36 kilos (18.43 lbs) to the scale
- Arctic fox bringing 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs) to the scale
- South American gray fox bringing 6.34 kilos (13.98 lbs) to the scale
- Maned wolf bringing 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Pampas fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudalopex gymnocercus:
- Red panda with a weight of 5.17 kilos (11.4 lbs)
- Groundhog with a weight of 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey with a weight of 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs)
- Antelope jackrabbit with a weight of 3.93 kilos (8.66 lbs)
- Sechuran fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
- Pampas fox with a weight of 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo with a weight of 4.76 kilos (10.49 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Gray dorcopsis with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pampas fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pampas fox:
- Patas monkey with a size of 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Müeller’s gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Patagonian mara with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Kinkajou with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Nilgiri langur with a size of 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Celebes crested macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Leopard cat with a size of 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a size of 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pampas fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Pampas fox:
- Slender squirrel
- Broad-footed mole
- East African highland shrew
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Texas mouse
- Gray-footed chipmunk
- Numbat
- Plains harvest mouse
- Mountain pocket gopher
- Père David’s mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pampas fox
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pampas fox:
- Red giant flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Water deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Dhole with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Brown mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Rhim gazelle with an average maximal age of 14 years
- European badger with an average maximal age of 16.17 years
- Tammar wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with an average maximal age of 11.5 years