What is the maximal age a Pampas fox reaches?
An adult Pampas fox (Pseudalopex gymnocercus) usually gets as old as 13.67 years.
Pampas foxs are around 59 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 275 grams (0.61 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Canidae family (genus: Pseudalopex), their offspring is 3 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 62.2 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 pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus), also known as grey pampean fox, pampas zorro, Azara’s fox, or Azara’s zorro (in Spanish also called aguará chaí, anglicized as aguarachay), is a medium-sized zorro, or “false” fox, native to the South American pampas. Azara in some of its alternative common names is a reference to Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.
Animals of the same family as a Pampas fox
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Canidae):
- Arctic fox becoming 15 years old
- Hoary fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas fox becoming 13.67 years old
- Sechuran fox growing to a mass of 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Golden jackal becoming 16 years old
- Wolf becoming 29.5 years old
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
- African wild dog becoming 11 years old
- Red fox becoming 15 years old
- Falkland Islands wolf getting as big as 96 cm (3′ 2″)
Animals that reach the same age as Pampas fox
With an average age of 13.67 years, Pampas fox are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Common noctule usually reaching 12 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier usually reaching 12 years
- Weyns’s duiker usually reaching 15.25 years
- Common duiker usually reaching 14.25 years
- Gray mouse lemur usually reaching 15.5 years
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax usually reaching 14 years
- Speke’s gazelle usually reaching 12.67 years
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 12.67 years
- Natterer’s bat usually reaching 15 years
- Water chevrotain usually reaching 14 years
Animals with the same number of babies Pampas fox
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Bunny rat
- Woodland thicket rat
- Graphiurus hueti
- North African hedgehog
- Anderson’s gerbil
- Woodland dormouse
- San Diego pocket mouse
- Long-eared hedgehog
- Ash-grey mouse
- Southern short-tailed shrew
Weighting as much as Pampas fox
A fully grown Pampas fox reaches around 4.54 kg (10.01 lbs). So do these animals:
- Brown dorcopsis weighting 5.39 kilos (11.88 lbs) on average
- Alaskan hare weighting 4.85 kilos (10.69 lbs) on average
- Greater mouse-deer weighting 5.25 kilos (11.57 lbs) on average
- Pagai Island macaque weighting 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) on average
- Sechuran fox weighting 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) on average
- Short-eared rock-wallaby weighting 4.02 kilos (8.86 lbs) on average
- Royal antelope weighting 3.9 kilos (8.6 lbs) on average
- Spotted-necked otter weighting 4.18 kilos (9.22 lbs) on average
- Sunda pangolin weighting 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs) on average
- Grivet weighting 3.86 kilos (8.51 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Pampas fox
Those animals grow as big as a Pampas fox:
- Collared mangabey with 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Drill (animal) with 70 cm (2′ 4″)
- Aders’s duiker with 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Yellow-throated marten with 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Capped langur with 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Kloss’s gibbon with 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with 60.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Dingiso with 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Purple-faced langur with 58.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Western red colobus with 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)