How many baby Iberian lynxs are in a litter?
A Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 69 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 Iberian lynx grows up to a size of 96.3 cm (3′ 2″).
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 Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is a wild cat species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. In the 20th century, the Iberian lynx population had declined because of overhunting and poaching, fragmentation of suitable habitats; the population of its main prey species, the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), experienced a severe decline caused by myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease.By the turn of the 21st century, the Iberian lynx was on the verge of extinction, as only about 100 individuals survived in two isolated subpopulations in Andalusia. Conservation measures were implemented since 2002 which included improving habitat, restocking of rabbits, translocating, re-introducing and monitoring Iberian lynxes. By 2012, the population had increased to 326 individuals.It is a monotypic species and is thought to have evolved from Lynx issiodorensis.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Iberian lynx is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Eurasian lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- European wildcat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Cougar with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Serval with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Canada lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tiger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Kodkod with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Geoffroy’s cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Iberian lynx
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Manchurian hare
- Brown mouse lemur
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Blanford’s rat
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- True’s vole
- Common gundi
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Iberian lynx
What other animals weight around 11.08 kg (24.42 lbs)?
- Pygathrix bieti usually reaching 11 kgs (24.25 lbs)
- Black snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 11 kgs (24.25 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 12.64 kgs (27.87 lbs)
- Marine otter usually reaching 11.2 kgs (24.69 lbs)
- Japanese macaque usually reaching 10.11 kgs (22.29 lbs)
- Barbary macaque usually reaching 11.49 kgs (25.33 lbs)
- Water deer usually reaching 12.73 kgs (28.06 lbs)
- Serval usually reaching 11.9 kgs (26.23 lbs)
- Black-footed gray langur usually reaching 10.03 kgs (22.11 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.9 kgs (24.03 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Iberian lynx
Also reaching around 96.3 cm (3′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle gets as big as 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Chimpanzee gets as big as 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Ethiopian wolf gets as big as 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat gets as big as 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Fishing cat gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Eurasian lynx gets as big as 85.4 cm (2′ 10″)
- Smooth-coated otter gets as big as 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Alpine musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Beira (antelope) gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)