What is the maximal age a Cape fox reaches?
An adult Cape fox (Vulpes chama) usually gets as old as 10 years.
Cape foxs are around 52 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 29 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 5.6 cm (0′ 3″). As a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 53.4 cm (1′ 10″).
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 Cape fox (Vulpes chama), also called the asse, cama fox or the silver-backed fox, is a small fox, native to southern Africa. It is also called a South African version of a fennec fox due to their big ears.It has black or silver gray fur with flanks and underside in light yellow. The tip of its tail is always black.The Cape fox tends to be 45 to 61 cm (17.5 to 24 in) long, not including a 30 to 40 cm (12 to 15.5 in) tail. It is 28 to 33 cm (11 to 13 in) tall at the shoulder, and usually weighs from 3.6 to 5 kg (7.9 to 11.0 lb).
Animals of the same family as a Cape fox
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Canidae):
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas fox becoming 13.67 years old
- Golden jackal becoming 16 years old
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Falkland Islands wolf getting as big as 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Bush dog becoming 10.33 years old
- Gray fox becoming 15 years old
- Side-striped jackal becoming 11.42 years old
- Island fox becoming 8 years old
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Cape fox
With an average age of 10 years, Cape fox are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Mountain beaver usually reaching 10 years
- Greater musky fruit bat usually reaching 8 years
- Eastern spotted skunk usually reaching 10 years
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 9 years
- Capybara usually reaching 12 years
- PudĂș usually reaching 10 years
- African wild dog usually reaching 11 years
- Striped possum usually reaching 9.58 years
- Weasel sportive lemur usually reaching 12 years
- Spectral tarsier usually reaching 12 years
Animals with the same number of babies Cape fox
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Littledale’s whistling rat
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Marsh rabbit
- Silvery mole-rat
- Iberian lynx
- Moss-forest rat
- Banana climbing mouse
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Transcaspian vole
- Desert pocket mouse
Weighting as much as Cape fox
A fully grown Cape fox reaches around 2.92 kg (6.44 lbs). So do these animals:
- Egyptian mongoose weighting 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) on average
- Mexican cottontail weighting 2.49 kilos (5.49 lbs) on average
- Sand cat weighting 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) on average
- Booted macaque weighting 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs) on average
- Southern tree hyrax weighting 2.71 kilos (5.97 lbs) on average
- Southern tree hyrax weighting 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs) on average
- Hispid hare weighting 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) on average
- Ring-tailed lemur weighting 2.63 kilos (5.8 lbs) on average
- Common brown lemur weighting 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs) on average
- Natal red rock hare weighting 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Cape fox
Those animals grow as big as a Cape fox:
- White-nosed saki with 44 cm (1′ 6″)
- Asian palm civet with 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Golden-crowned sifaka with 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- King colobus with 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- White-nosed coati with 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Purple-faced langur with 58.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Red-rumped agouti with 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pallas’s cat with 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Javan surili with 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pig-tailed langur with 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)