It is hard to guess what a Sechuran fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sechuran fox (Pseudalopex sechurae) on average weights 4.23 kg (9.33 lbs).
The Sechuran fox is from the family Canidae (genus: Pseudalopex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 56.2 cm (1′ 11″).
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:
- Hoary fox bringing 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) to the scale
- Coyote bringing 12 kilos (26.46 lbs) to the scale
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Pale fox bringing 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) to the scale
- Kit fox bringing 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs) to the scale
- Crab-eating fox bringing 5.74 kilos (12.65 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas fox bringing 4.54 kilos (10.01 lbs) to the scale
- Blanford’s fox with a weight of 994 grams
- Red fox bringing 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs) to the scale
- Bengal fox bringing 2.51 kilos (5.53 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 Pseudalopex sechurae:
- White-throated guenon with a weight of 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin with a weight of 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a weight of 3.4 kilos (7.5 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a weight of 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs)
- Brown palm civet with a weight of 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs)
- European wildcat with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Gray dorcopsis with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Alaskan hare with a weight of 4.85 kilos (10.69 lbs)
- Big hairy armadillo with a weight of 4.46 kilos (9.83 lbs)
- Unadorned rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.56 kilos (10.05 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:
- White-nosed coati with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Asian small-clawed otter with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 62.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Owston’s palm civet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Blue monkey with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Kloss’s gibbon with a size of 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Southern tree hyrax with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)