It is hard to guess what a Smith’s red rock hare weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smith’s red rock hare (Pronolagus rupestris) on average weights 2.25 kg (4.96 lbs).
The Smith’s red rock hare is from the family Leporidae (genus: Pronolagus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 43.8 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, Smith’s red rock hares have 2 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.
Smith’s red rock hare (Pronolagus rupestris) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae (rabbits and hares), and is the smallest member of the genus Pronolagus. The upperparts and gular collar are reddish brown in colour. It has warm, brown, grizzled, thicker hairs at the back of the body, and white to tawny, thinner underfur. It is endemic to Africa, found in parts of Kenya (Rift Valley), Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rhodesia, South Africa (Northern Cape, Free State, and North West), Tanzania and Zambia. It is a folivore, and usually forages on grasses (such as sprouting grass), shrubs and herbs. It breeds from September to February, and the female litters one or two offspring. Being a leporid, the hare’s offspring is called a leveret, or leverets (plural). The young leave the nest at three years of age. In 1996, it was rated as a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species.
Animals of the same family as a Smith’s red rock hare
We found other animals of the Leporidae family:
- Bunyoro rabbit bringing 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs) to the scale
- Natal red rock hare bringing 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern cottontail bringing 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs) to the scale
- Brush rabbit with a weight of 716 grams
- European hare bringing 3.82 kilos (8.42 lbs) to the scale
- Tres Marias rabbit with a weight of 964 grams
- Manzano Mountain cottontail with a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Burmese hare bringing 2.27 kilos (5 lbs) to the scale
- European rabbit bringing 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs) to the scale
- Pygmy rabbit with a weight of 437 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Smith’s red rock hare
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pronolagus rupestris:
- Yellow-throated marten with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Red-bellied lemur with a weight of 2.03 kilos (4.48 lbs)
- Corsac fox with a weight of 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs)
- Kinkajou with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine with a weight of 1.9 kilos (4.19 lbs)
- Bengal fox with a weight of 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs)
- Long-footed potoroo with a weight of 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs)
- Palawan stink badger with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Abyssinian hare with a weight of 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs)
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum with a weight of 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Smith’s red rock hare
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Smith’s red rock hare:
- Banded linsang with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Coypu with a size of 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tres Marias rabbit with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Wedge-capped capuchin with a size of 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Crab-eating macaque with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Aquatic genet with a size of 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Javan surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- De Brazza’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Smith’s red rock hare
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Smith’s red rock hare: