How many baby Geoffroy’s cats are in a litter?
A Geoffroy’s cat (Oncifelis geoffroyi) 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 73 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 91 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 13.5 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Oncifelis). An adult Geoffroy’s cat grows up to a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″).
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.
Geoffroy’s cat (Leopardus geoffroyi) is a wild cat native to the southern and central regions of South America. It is about the size of a domestic cat. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because it is widespread and abundant over most of its range.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Geoffroy’s cat is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Bobcat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguar with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lion with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Serval with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Canada lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rusty-spotted cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bay cat weighting around 3.43 kilograms (7.56 lbs)
- Snow leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Marbled cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Geoffroy’s cat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Bobcat
- Golden palm civet
- Long-nosed bandicoot
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Banded linsang
- Maned wolf
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Island fox
- Andean mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Geoffroy’s cat
What other animals weight around 2.73 kg (6.02 lbs)?
- Silver dik-dik usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Azara’s agouti usually reaching 2.98 kgs (6.57 lbs)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain usually reaching 3.11 kgs (6.86 lbs)
- Mountain hare usually reaching 3.11 kgs (6.86 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.58 kgs (5.69 lbs)
- Equatorial saki usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Wolf’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.26 kgs (7.19 lbs)
- Eastern hare-wallaby usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Sand cat usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Dryas monkey usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Geoffroy’s cat
Also reaching around 57.6 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Woolly hare gets as big as 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Celebes crested macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Angolan genet gets as big as 47.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hoary fox gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- European wildcat gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Servaline genet gets as big as 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)