It is hard to guess what a Tibetan sand fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tibetan sand fox (Vulpes ferrilata) on average weights 5.54 kg (12.22 lbs).
The Tibetan sand fox is from the family Canidae (genus: Vulpes). It is usually born with about 90 grams (0.2 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.2 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Tibetan sand 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 Tibetan sand fox (Vulpes ferrilata) is a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau, Ladakh plateau, Nepal, China, Sikkim, and Bhutan, up to altitudes of about 5,300 m (17,400 ft). It is listed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List, on account of its widespread range in the Tibetan Plateau’s steppes and semi-deserts.It is sometimes referred to as the Tibetan fox, or simply as the sand fox, but this terminology is confusing because the corsac fox (Vulpes corsac), which lives in arid environments north and west of the Tibetan Plateau, is often called the “sand fox” or “Tibetan fox” as well. The Rüppell’s fox (Vulpes rueppellii) is also known as the “sand fox”, but is native to arid desert regions of North Africa and Middle East.
Animals of the same family as a Tibetan sand fox
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Culpeo bringing 8.62 kilos (19 lbs) to the scale
- African wild dog bringing 22 kilos (48.5 lbs) to the scale
- Dhole bringing 15.85 kilos (34.94 lbs) to the scale
- Crab-eating fox bringing 5.74 kilos (12.65 lbs) to the scale
- Pale fox bringing 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) to the scale
- Ethiopian wolf bringing 14.38 kilos (31.7 lbs) to the scale
- Arctic fox bringing 3.58 kilos (7.89 lbs) to the scale
- Red fox bringing 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs) to the scale
- Bush dog bringing 6.32 kilos (13.93 lbs) to the scale
- South American gray fox bringing 6.34 kilos (13.98 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Tibetan sand fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vulpes ferrilata:
- Lar gibbon with a weight of 5.6 kilos (12.35 lbs)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs)
- Red-necked pademelon with a weight of 5.4 kilos (11.9 lbs)
- Pileated gibbon with a weight of 5.57 kilos (12.28 lbs)
- Mentawai langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Mantled howler with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- Vancouver Island marmot with a weight of 5.24 kilos (11.55 lbs)
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka with a weight of 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs)
- Short-beaked echidna with a weight of 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs)
- Lion-tailed macaque with a weight of 6 kilos (13.23 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tibetan sand fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tibetan sand fox:
- Cape genet with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Scrub hare with a size of 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Hamadryas baboon with a size of 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Proboscis monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with a size of 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Formosan rock macaque with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Hoary fox with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Mona monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tibetan sand fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Tibetan sand fox: