What is the maximal age a Bush dog reaches?
An adult Bush dog (Speothos venaticus) usually gets as old as 10.33 years.
Bush dogs are around 67 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 158 grams (0.35 lbs) and measure 5.6 cm (0′ 3″). As a member of the Canidae family (genus: Speothos), their offspring is 4 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The bush dog (Speothos venaticus) is a canid found in Central and South America. In spite of its extensive range, it is very rare in most areas except in Suriname, Guyana and Peru; it was first identified by Peter Wilhelm Lund from fossils in Brazilian caves and was believed to be extinct. The bush dog is the only living species in the genus Speothos, and genetic evidence suggests that its closest living relative is the maned wolf of central South America or the African wild dog. The species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN.In Brazil it is called cachorro-vinagre (“vinegar dog”) or cachorro-do-mato (“bush dog”). In Spanish-speaking countries it is called perro vinagre (“vinegar dog”), zorro vinagre (“vinegar fox”), perro de agua (“water dog”), or perro de monte (“mountain dog”).
Animals of the same family as a Bush dog
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Canidae):
- Sechuran fox growing to a mass of 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Pampas fox becoming 13.67 years old
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Corsac fox with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian wolf growing to a mass of 14.38 kgs (31.7 lbs)
- Kit fox becoming 20 years old
- Gray fox becoming 15 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Bush dog
With an average age of 10.33 years, Bush dog are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Boodie usually reaching 10 years
- Dice’s cottontail usually reaching 9 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur usually reaching 12 years
- Chinese ferret-badger usually reaching 10.5 years
- Spectral tarsier usually reaching 12 years
- Banded linsang usually reaching 10.67 years
- Weasel sportive lemur usually reaching 12 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat usually reaching 10 years
- Eastern spotted skunk usually reaching 10 years
- Whiskered bat usually reaching 9.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Bush dog
The same number of babies at once (4) are born by:
- American mink
- Turkestan rat
- Caucasian squirrel
- Great Basin pocket mouse
- Peromyscus maniculatus
- Large-eared pika
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat
- Zygodontomys brevicauda
- European water vole
- Culpeo
Weighting as much as Bush dog
A fully grown Bush dog reaches around 6.32 kg (13.94 lbs). So do these animals:
- Jungle cat weighting 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs) on average
- Mentawai langur weighting 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs) on average
- Moor macaque weighting 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs) on average
- Black crested gibbon weighting 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs) on average
- Peruvian spider monkey weighting 7.09 kilos (15.63 lbs) on average
- Red panda weighting 5.17 kilos (11.4 lbs) on average
- White-fronted surili weighting 6.12 kilos (13.49 lbs) on average
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka weighting 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs) on average
- Brown howler weighting 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs) on average
- Hoolock gibbon weighting 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Bush dog
Those animals grow as big as a Bush dog:
- Javan surili with 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Northern plains gray langur with 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Otter civet with 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- King colobus with 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Indian crested porcupine with 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Cape genet with 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Nilgiri marten with 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tana River mangabey with 51 cm (1′ 9″)