How many baby Kodkods are in a litter?
A Kodkod (Oncifelis guigna) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 74 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 Kodkod grows up to a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″).
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 kodkod (Leopardus guigna) (Spanish pronunciation: [koðˈkoð]), also called güiña, is the smallest cat in the Americas. It lives primarily in central and southern Chile and marginally in adjoining areas of Argentina. Its area of distribution is small compared to the other South American cats. Since 2002, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List as the total effective population may comprise less than 10,000 mature individuals, and is threatened due to persecution and loss of habitat and prey base.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Kodkod is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Bay cat weighting around 3.43 kilograms (7.56 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese mountain cat weighting around 5.49 kilograms (12.1 lbs)
- Eurasian lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ocelot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Flat-headed cat weighting around 3.53 kilograms (7.78 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bobcat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jungle cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Kodkod
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Chinese mole shrew
- Buettikofer’s shrew
- Clouded leopard
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- Iberian lynx
- Tiger
- Travancore flying squirrel
- Pied tamarin
- Buffy-tufted marmoset
- Web-footed tenrec
Animals that get as old as a Kodkod
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11 years:
- Fisher (animal) with 10.08 years
- Rock cavy with 11 years
- Weasel sportive lemur with 12 years
- Red-necked pademelon with 9 years
- Black-footed ferret with 12 years
- Plantain squirrel with 9.58 years
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Calabar angwantibo with 13 years
- Pronghorn with 12 years
- Jungle cat with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Kodkod
What other animals weight around 2.5 kg (5.51 lbs)?
- Virginia opossum usually reaching 2.46 kgs (5.42 lbs)
- Golden palm civet usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Rio Tapajós saki usually reaching 2.31 kgs (5.09 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.61 kgs (5.75 lbs)
- Rothschild’s porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.6 kgs (5.73 lbs)
- Silky cuscus usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Crab-eating mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Yellow-throated marten usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Striped hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.01 kgs (4.43 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Kodkod
Also reaching around 38.8 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Western quoll gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Central African oyan gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black capuchin gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Little Swan Island hutia gets as big as 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- Haussa genet gets as big as 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Long-nosed echymipera gets as big as 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tufted ground squirrel gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat gets as big as 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Raccoon dog gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel gets as big as 34 cm (1′ 2″)