It is hard to guess what a Sechuran fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sechuran fox (Lycalopex sechurae) on average weights 4.23 kg (9.33 lbs).
The Sechuran fox is from the family Canidae (genus: Lycalopex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 55.8 cm (1′ 10″).
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 Sechuran fox (Lycalopex sechurae), also called the Peruvian desert fox or the Sechuran zorro, is a small South American species of canid closely related to other South American “false” foxes or zorro. It gets its name for being found in the Sechura Desert in northwestern Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Sechuran fox
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Bat-eared fox bringing 4.07 kilos (8.97 lbs) to the scale
- Hoary fox bringing 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) to the scale
- Island fox bringing 1.92 kilos (4.23 lbs) to the scale
- Rüppell’s fox bringing 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs) to the scale
- Culpeo bringing 8.62 kilos (19 lbs) to the scale
- Raccoon dog bringing 4.22 kilos (9.3 lbs) to the scale
- African wild dog bringing 22 kilos (48.5 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas fox bringing 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs) to the scale
- Pale fox bringing 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sechuran fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lycalopex sechurae:
- Blue duiker with a weight of 4.9 kilos (10.8 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)
- Godman’s rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs)
- Mona monkey with a weight of 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs)
- Gray fox with a weight of 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs)
- Blue monkey with a weight of 5.04 kilos (11.11 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a weight of 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs)
- White-nosed coati with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sechuran fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sechuran fox:
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Nilgiri marten with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Otter civet with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Marsh mongoose with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Ursine colobus with a size of 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Angolan genet with a size of 47.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- King colobus with a size of 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Gray dorcopsis with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Raffles’ banded langur with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)