What is the maximal age a Red wolf reaches?
An adult Red wolf (Canis rufus) usually gets as old as 20 years.
Red wolfs are around 61 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 177 grams (0.39 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Canidae family (genus: Canis), their offspring is 5 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″).
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 red wolf (Canis lupus rufus or Canis rufus) is a canine native to the southeastern United States which has a reddish-tawny color to its fur. Morphologically it is intermediate between the coyote and gray wolf, and is very closely related to the eastern wolf of eastern Canada.The red wolf’s proper taxonomic classification — in essence, whether it is an admixture of wolf and coyote or a third, distinct species — has been contentious for well over a century and is still under debate. Because of this, it is sometimes excluded from endangered species lists despite its critically low numbers. Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service currently recognizes the red wolf as an endangered and grants protected status. Canis rufus is not listed in the CITES Appendices of endangered species. Since 1996 the IUCN has listed it as a critically endangered species.
Animals of the same family as a Red wolf
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Canidae):
- Sechuran fox growing to a mass of 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Red fox becoming 15 years old
- Crab-eating fox becoming 11.5 years old
- Blanford’s fox becoming 10 years old
- Bengal fox becoming 10 years old
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
- Cape fox becoming 10 years old
- Black-backed jackal becoming 14 years old
- African wild dog becoming 11 years old
- Golden jackal becoming 16 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Red wolf
With an average age of 20 years, Red wolf are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Bay duiker usually reaching 17 years
- Short-eared possum usually reaching 17 years
- Springbok usually reaching 20 years
- Ring-tailed cat usually reaching 16.5 years
- False killer whale usually reaching 22 years
- African palm civet usually reaching 18.5 years
- Fossa (animal) usually reaching 20 years
- Short-beaked common dolphin usually reaching 20 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat usually reaching 21.17 years
- Antarctic fur seal usually reaching 23 years
Animals with the same number of babies Red wolf
The same number of babies at once (5) are born by:
- Shaw’s jird
- Marbled polecat
- Sminthopsis laniger
- American pygmy shrew
- Coyote
- Tristram’s jird
- Crowned shrew
- Slender shrew
- European rabbit
- New Guinean rat
Weighting as much as Red wolf
A fully grown Red wolf reaches around 26.7 kg (58.86 lbs). So do these animals:
- Sea otter weighting 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs) on average
- Red-fronted gazelle weighting 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) on average
- Arabian tahr weighting 22.06 kilos (48.63 lbs) on average
- Dwarf blue sheep weighting 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs) on average
- Tufted deer weighting 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) on average
- Maned wolf weighting 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs) on average
- Cameroon clawless otter weighting 21.6 kilos (47.62 lbs) on average
- Goitered gazelle weighting 26.84 kilos (59.17 lbs) on average
- Common wallaroo weighting 25.99 kilos (57.3 lbs) on average
- Roe deer weighting 22.45 kilos (49.49 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Red wolf
Those animals grow as big as a Red wolf:
- Brown hyena with 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Giant otter with 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Aardvark with 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Harnessed bushbuck with 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Coyote with 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Speke’s gazelle with 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- African wild dog with 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Mongolian gazelle with 1.24 meter (4′ 1″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)