How many baby European wildcats are in a litter?
A European wildcat (Felis silvestris) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 65 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 106 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Felis). An adult European wildcat grows up to a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″).
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 European wildcat (Felis silvestris) is a wildcat species native to continental Europe, Scotland, Turkey and the Caucasus. It inhabits forests from the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe to the Caucasus. It has been extirpated in England and Wales.In France and Italy, the European wildcat is predominantly nocturnal, but also active in the daytime when undisturbed by human activities.
Other animals of the family Felidae
European wildcat is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Marbled cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed cat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Serval with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Geoffroy’s cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Canada lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kodkod with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with European wildcat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
- Woolly hare
- Savanna path shrew
- Nimba otter shrew
- Ungava collared lemming
- Brush rabbit
- San Diego pocket mouse
- Gray-footed chipmunk
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Desert kangaroo rat
Animals that get as old as a European wildcat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 31 years:
- Indian flying fox with 31.33 years
- Northern olingo with 25 years
- Ribbon seal with 31 years
- Collared mangabey with 30 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Brown woolly monkey with 30 years
- Spectacled bear with 36.42 years
- Red-bellied titi with 25.25 years
- De Brazza’s monkey with 26.25 years
- Pagai Island macaque with 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a European wildcat
What other animals weight around 4.53 kg (9.99 lbs)?
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 5.35 kgs (11.79 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Hoary fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Greater cane rat usually reaching 3.75 kgs (8.27 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Fisher (animal) usually reaching 3.75 kgs (8.27 lbs)
- Grivet usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
- South American coati usually reaching 3.78 kgs (8.33 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a European wildcat
Also reaching around 50 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Wolf’s mona monkey gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pygmy hog gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Asian palm civet gets as big as 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Olive colobus gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Müeller’s gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- South American gray fox gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Philippine porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red lemur gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)