What is the maximal age a Kit fox reaches?
An adult Kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) usually gets as old as 20 years.
When born, they weight 69 grams (0.15 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes), their offspring is 4 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 56.4 cm (1′ 11″).
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 kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) is a fox species of North America. Its range is primarily in the Southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico. Some mammalogists classify it as conspecific with the swift fox, V. velox, but molecular systematics imply that the two species are distinct. It has also been called an American Fennec fox due to its large ears.
Animals of the same family as a Kit fox
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Canidae):
- African wild dog becoming 11 years old
- Swift fox becoming 20 years old
- Maned wolf becoming 15 years old
- Arctic fox becoming 15 years old
- Fennec fox becoming 14.58 years old
- Tibetan sand fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Wolf becoming 29.5 years old
- Red wolf becoming 20 years old
- Pale fox becoming 10 years old
- Golden jackal becoming 16 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Kit fox
With an average age of 20 years, Kit fox are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Mule deer usually reaching 22 years
- Eastern gray squirrel usually reaching 24 years
- Goat usually reaching 20.75 years
- Tana River mangabey usually reaching 21 years
- Pygmy sperm whale usually reaching 17 years
- Platypus usually reaching 22 years
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 23.83 years
- Bay duiker usually reaching 17 years
- Antilopine kangaroo usually reaching 16 years
- Mohol bushbaby usually reaching 16.5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Kit fox
The same number of babies at once (4) are born by:
- Australian swamp rat
- Swift fox
- Kemp’s gerbil
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Giant naked-tailed rat
- Hooded skunk
- Long-tailed dunnart
- Western harvest mouse
- Ningbing false antechinus
Weighting as much as Kit fox
A fully grown Kit fox reaches around 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs). So do these animals:
- Red fox weighting 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs) on average
- Nine-banded armadillo weighting 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs) on average
- Campbell’s mona monkey weighting 3.63 kilos (8 lbs) on average
- Alpine marmot weighting 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs) on average
- Vancouver Island marmot weighting 5.24 kilos (11.55 lbs) on average
- Gray fox weighting 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs) on average
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo weighting 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs) on average
- Blue duiker weighting 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs) on average
- Red panda weighting 5.17 kilos (11.4 lbs) on average
- Toque macaque weighting 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs) on average