What is the maximal age a Oncilla reaches?
An adult Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) usually gets as old as 10 years.
Oncillas are around 39 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). As a member of the Felidae family (genus: Leopardus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 25 cm (0′ 10″).
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 oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo, is a small spotted cat ranging from Central America to central Brazil. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because the population is threatened by deforestation and conversion of habitat to agricultural land.In 2013, it was proposed to assign the population in southern Brazil and Cuyoaco to a new species L. guttulus, after it was found not to be interbreeding with the L. tigrinus population in northeast Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Oncilla
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Felidae):
- Rusty-spotted cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi becoming 10.58 years old
- Snow leopard becoming 18 years old
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Canada lynx becoming 26.75 years old
- Cheetah becoming 19 years old
- Clouded leopard becoming 17 years old
- Ocelot becoming 20.25 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Oncilla
With an average age of 10 years, Oncilla are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat usually reaching 10 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit usually reaching 8 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat usually reaching 9.75 years
- Crab-eating fox usually reaching 11.5 years
- Least weasel usually reaching 10 years
- Long-footed treeshrew usually reaching 12 years
- Red squirrel usually reaching 12 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby usually reaching 12 years
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 12 years
- Western tree hyrax usually reaching 10 years
Animals with the same number of babies Oncilla
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Fraternal myotis
- Four-horned antelope
- Western red colobus
- Bawean deer
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Northern giraffe
- La Plata dolphin
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Ringed seal
Weighting as much as Oncilla
A fully grown Oncilla reaches around 1.11 kg (2.44 lbs). So do these animals:
- Eastern lowland olingo weighting 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs) on average
- Bahamian hutia with 912 grams
- Clara’s echymipera weighting 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) on average
- Emperor rat weighting 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) on average
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with 888 grams
- Green ringtail possum weighting 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs) on average
- Black jackrabbit weighting 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) on average
- Big-eared opossum weighting 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) on average
- Screaming hairy armadillo with 930 grams
- American mink with 904 grams
Animals as big as a Oncilla
Those animals grow as big as a Oncilla:
- Chinese red pika with 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Poncelet’s giant rat with 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Meerkat with 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-tailed antsangy with 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Island mouse with 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Japen rat with 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Common dwarf mongoose with 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)