What is the maximal age a Dhole reaches?
An adult Dhole (Cuon alpinus) usually gets as old as 16 years.
Dholes are around 61 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 275 grams (0.61 lbs) and measure 1.9 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Canidae family (genus: Cuon), their offspring is 4 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 98.8 cm (3′ 3″).
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 dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Other English names for the species include Asian wild dog, Asiatic wild dog, Indian wild dog, whistling dog, red dog, and mountain wolf. It is genetically close to species within the genus Canis, but distinct in several anatomical aspects: its skull is convex rather than concave in profile, it lacks a third lower molar and the upper molars sport only a single cusp as opposed to between two and four. During the Pleistocene, the dhole ranged throughout Asia, Europe, and North America but became restricted to its historical range 12,000–18,000 years ago.The dhole is a highly social animal, living in large clans without rigid dominance hierarchies and containing multiple breeding females. Such clans usually consist of 12 individuals, but groups of over 40 are known. It is a diurnal pack hunter which preferentially targets medium- and large-sized ungulates. In tropical forests, the dhole competes with tiger and leopard, targeting somewhat different prey species, but still with substantial dietary overlap.It is listed as Endangered by the IUCN as populations are decreasing and are estimated at fewer than 2,500 adults. Factors contributing to this decline include habitat loss, loss of prey, competition with other species, persecution due to livestock predation and disease transfer from domestic dogs.
Animals of the same family as a Dhole
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Canidae):
- Side-striped jackal becoming 11.42 years old
- Swift fox becoming 20 years old
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Maned wolf becoming 15 years old
- Pale fox becoming 10 years old
- Coyote becoming 21.83 years old
- Cape fox becoming 10 years old
- Ethiopian wolf growing to a mass of 14.38 kgs (31.7 lbs)
- Bush dog becoming 10.33 years old
- Wolf becoming 29.5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Dhole
With an average age of 16 years, Dhole are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Weyns’s duiker usually reaching 15.25 years
- Yellow-backed duiker usually reaching 17.25 years
- White-nosed coati usually reaching 17.67 years
- Servaline genet usually reaching 17 years
- Desert warthog usually reaching 18.75 years
- Pygmy marmoset usually reaching 15.08 years
- Small-toothed palm civet usually reaching 15.83 years
- European badger usually reaching 16.17 years
- Red fox usually reaching 15 years
- Indian pangolin usually reaching 13.5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Dhole
The same number of babies at once (4) are born by:
- Gerbil mouse
- Long-clawed ground squirrel
- Gracile tateril
- European water vole
- Lesser capybara
- American mink
- Tarbagan marmot
- Turkestan rat
- Hooded skunk
- Smoke-bellied rat
Weighting as much as Dhole
A fully grown Dhole reaches around 15.85 kg (34.94 lbs). So do these animals:
- Eurasian beaver weighting 19 kilos (41.89 lbs) on average
- Dwarf brocket weighting 16.04 kilos (35.36 lbs) on average
- Crested porcupine weighting 13.4 kilos (29.54 lbs) on average
- Dorcas gazelle weighting 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) on average
- Black musk deer weighting 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs) on average
- Klipspringer weighting 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) on average
- Wolverine weighting 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs) on average
- Zebra duiker weighting 15.53 kilos (34.24 lbs) on average
- Swamp wallaby weighting 15 kilos (33.07 lbs) on average
- Indian muntjac weighting 17.51 kilos (38.6 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Dhole
Those animals grow as big as a Dhole:
- Goa (antelope) with 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Indian muntjac with 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Abbott’s duiker with 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Gray brocket with 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
- Chacoan peccary with 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Klipspringer with 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Oribi with 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Common wombat with 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)