It is hard to guess what a Pygmy rabbit weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) on average weights 437 grams (0.96 lbs).
The Pygmy rabbit is from the family Leporidae (genus: Brachylagus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.5 cm (0′ 11″). On average, Pygmy rabbits can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) is a North American rabbit, and is one of only two rabbit species in America to dig its own burrow. The pygmy rabbit differs significantly from species within either the Lepus (hare) or Sylvilagus (cottontail) genera and is generally considered to be within the monotypic genus Brachylagus. One isolated population, the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Federal government, though the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as lower risk.The pygmy rabbit is the world’s smallest leporid, which means adult weights from 375 to about 500 grams (0.827 to about 1.102 lb), and a body length from 23.5 to 29.5 centimeters (9.3 to 11.6 in); females are slightly larger than males. The pygmy rabbit is distinguishable from other leporids by its small size, short ears, gray color, small hind legs, and lack of whit fuzzy fur
Animals of the same family as a Pygmy rabbit
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- Yunnan hare bringing 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs) to the scale
- Snowshoe hare bringing 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) to the scale
- Natal red rock hare bringing 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs) to the scale
- Brush rabbit with a weight of 716 grams
- Mexican cottontail bringing 2.49 kilos (5.49 lbs) to the scale
- Ethiopian highland hare bringing 2.77 kilos (6.11 lbs) to the scale
- African savanna hare bringing 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) to the scale
- Korean hare with a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-sided jackrabbit bringing 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs) to the scale
- Swamp rabbit bringing 2.14 kilos (4.72 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy rabbit
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Brachylagus idahoensis:
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Eastern small-toothed rat bringing 357 grams to the scale
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel bringing 500 grams to the scale
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat bringing 356 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed chinchilla bringing 500 grams to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose bringing 362 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Bunker’s woodrat bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Social tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 458 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pygmy rabbit
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pygmy rabbit:
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mexican fox squirrel with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eastern woodrat with a size of 21.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Siberian weasel with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Silvery lutung with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Rufous elephant shrew with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Common echymipera with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Prevost’s squirrel with a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pygmy rabbit
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Pygmy rabbit: