How many baby Asian golden cats are in a litter?
A Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 99 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 166 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Catopuma). An adult Asian golden cat grows up to a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) is a medium-sized wild cat native to the northeastern Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and southern China. It has been listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2008, and is threatened by hunting pressure and habitat loss, since Southeast Asian forests are undergoing the world’s fastest regional deforestation.The Asian golden cat’s scientific name honours the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. It is also called Temminck’s cat and Asiatic golden cat.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Asian golden cat is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Jaguar with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Andean mountain cat weighting around 8.13 kilograms (17.92 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cat becoming 34 years old
- Black-footed cat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Oncilla with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bobcat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lion with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Serval with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Asian golden cat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Spotted bat
- Indian muntjac
- Green ringtail possum
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis
- Horsfield’s tarsier
- Eastern forest bat
- Brown’s pademelon
- Pileated gibbon
- Subantarctic fur seal
Animals that get as old as a Asian golden cat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- Hirola with 15.17 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 15.5 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Bahamian raccoon with 21 years
- Smooth-coated otter with 15 years
- Yellow-bellied glider with 16 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Celebes crested macaque with 18 years
- Brown fur seal with 21 years
- Sumatran serow with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Asian golden cat
What other animals weight around 7.73 kg (17.05 lbs)?
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 6.61 kgs (14.57 lbs)
- Aardwolf usually reaching 8.29 kgs (18.28 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon usually reaching 6.41 kgs (14.13 lbs)
- Olympic marmot usually reaching 6.3 kgs (13.89 lbs)
- Southern river otter usually reaching 7.5 kgs (16.53 lbs)
- Javan surili usually reaching 6.57 kgs (14.48 lbs)
- Mantled howler usually reaching 6.58 kgs (14.51 lbs)
- Aardwolf usually reaching 8.14 kgs (17.95 lbs)
- Black-backed jackal usually reaching 8.29 kgs (18.28 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Asian golden cat
Also reaching around 89 cm (3′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- African civet gets as big as 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Fossa (animal) gets as big as 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Red forest duiker gets as big as 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Smooth-coated otter gets as big as 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Wolf gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- North American porcupine gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Bornean yellow muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Large Indian civet gets as big as 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Chimpanzee gets as big as 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Black-fronted duiker gets as big as 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)