What is the maximal age a Pale fox reaches?
An adult Pale fox (Vulpes pallida) usually gets as old as 10 years.
When born, they weight 6.09 kg (13.42 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). As a member of the Canidae family (genus: Vulpes), their offspring is 4 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 43 cm (1′ 5″).
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 pale fox (Vulpes pallida) is a species of fox found in the band of African Sahel from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east. It is one of the least studied of all canid species, in part due to its remote habitat and its sandy coat that blends in well with the desert-like terrain.
Animals of the same family as a Pale fox
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Canidae):
- Gray fox becoming 15 years old
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
- Tibetan sand fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Culpeo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Dhole becoming 16 years old
- Swift fox becoming 20 years old
- Blanford’s fox becoming 10 years old
- Side-striped jackal becoming 11.42 years old
- Red fox becoming 15 years old
- Golden jackal becoming 16 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Pale fox
With an average age of 10 years, Pale fox are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red squirrel usually reaching 12 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat usually reaching 10 years
- Blue duiker usually reaching 12 years
- Striped possum usually reaching 9.58 years
- Squirrel glider usually reaching 12 years
- African wild dog usually reaching 11 years
- Asian small-clawed otter usually reaching 10.08 years
- Black-footed ferret usually reaching 12 years
- Banded linsang usually reaching 10.67 years
- American mink usually reaching 10 years
Animals with the same number of babies Pale fox
The same number of babies at once (4) are born by:
- Steppe lemming
- North African gerbil
- Woolly dormouse
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Dark bolo mouse
- Wolf
- Hooded skunk
- Parantechinus bilarni
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec
- Kloss’s mole
Weighting as much as Pale fox
A fully grown Pale fox reaches around 2.8 kg (6.17 lbs). So do these animals:
- Crested agouti weighting 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs) on average
- Equatorial saki weighting 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs) on average
- Large bamboo rat weighting 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) on average
- Kinkajou weighting 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) on average
- Dryas monkey weighting 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) on average
- Azara’s agouti weighting 2.98 kilos (6.57 lbs) on average
- Macleay’s dorcopsis weighting 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) on average
- Marbled cat weighting 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs) on average
- Margay weighting 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) on average
- Hoary bamboo rat weighting 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Pale fox
Those animals grow as big as a Pale fox:
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Central African oyan with 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with 43.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Coppery titi with 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Asian small-clawed otter with 51.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit with 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Robust cottontail with 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Six-banded armadillo with 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Vancouver Island marmot with 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Beech marten with 46 cm (1′ 7″)