How many baby Eurasian lynxs are in a litter?
A Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 67 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 289 grams (0.64 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Lynx). An adult Eurasian lynx grows up to a size of 85.4 cm (2′ 10″).
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 Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is a medium-sized wild cat occurring from Northern, Central and Eastern Europe to Central Asia and Siberia, the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. It inhabits temperate and boreal forests up to an altitude of 5,500 m (18,000 ft). Because of its wide distribution, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2008. It is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching and depletion of prey. The European lynx population is estimated at comprising maximum 10,000 individuals and is considered stable.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Eurasian lynx is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Andean mountain cat weighting around 8.13 kilograms (17.92 lbs)
- Black-footed cat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Flat-headed cat weighting around 3.53 kilograms (7.78 lbs)
- Cougar with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sand cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Cheetah with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rusty-spotted cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Eurasian lynx
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Iberian lynx
- American pika
- Mexican woodrat
- Fresno kangaroo rat
- Short-tailed gymnure
- Yunnan hare
- Buettikofer’s shrew
- Indian crested porcupine
- Bobcat
- Smith’s red rock hare
Animals that get as old as a Eurasian lynx
Other animals that usually reach the age of 26.75 years:
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with 21.75 years
- Mantled howler with 25 years
- Southern elephant seal with 23 years
- Siberian ibex with 22.25 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with 31 years
- Gayal with 26.17 years
- Black crested mangabey with 26.75 years
- Hawaiian monk seal with 30 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eurasian lynx
What other animals weight around 19.3 kg (42.55 lbs)?
- Mandrill usually reaching 16.74 kgs (36.91 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.63 kgs (36.66 lbs)
- African wild dog usually reaching 22 kgs (48.5 lbs)
- Lesser capybara usually reaching 21.27 kgs (46.89 lbs)
- Red-necked wallaby usually reaching 16.83 kgs (37.1 lbs)
- Gelada usually reaching 15.98 kgs (35.23 lbs)
- Grey rhebok usually reaching 22.62 kgs (49.87 lbs)
- Common duiker usually reaching 15.57 kgs (34.33 lbs)
- Chacma baboon usually reaching 17.73 kgs (39.09 lbs)
- Black wallaroo usually reaching 17 kgs (37.48 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Eurasian lynx
Also reaching around 85.4 cm (2′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Black snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Siberian musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Cameroon clawless otter gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Japanese macaque gets as big as 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Honey badger gets as big as 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Short-eared dog gets as big as 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Golden jackal gets as big as 83 cm (2′ 9″)
- Goa (antelope) gets as big as 98 cm (3′ 3″)