How many baby Leopard cats are in a litter?
A Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 68 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 84 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Prionailurus). An adult Leopard cat grows up to a size of 68.4 cm (2′ 3″).
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 leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is a small wild cat native to continental South, Southeast and East Asia. Since 2002 it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List as it is widely distributed although threatened by habitat loss and hunting in parts of its range.Historically, the leopard cat of continental Asia was considered the same species as the Sunda leopard cat. As of 2017, the latter is recognised as a distinct species, with the taxonomic name Prionailurus javanensis.Leopard cat subspecies differ widely in fur colour, tail length, skull shape and size of carnassials. Archaeological evidence indicates that the leopard cat was the first cat species domesticated in Neolithic China about 5,000 years ago in Shaanxi and Henan Provinces.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Leopard cat is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Cat becoming 34 years old
- Black-footed cat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tiger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguar with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Oncilla with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Marbled cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lion with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Leopard cat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Amami rabbit
- Nilgiri striped squirrel
- Red panda
- Cougar
- Jaguarundi
- Brown mouse lemur
- Maned wolf
- Golden bandicoot
- North American river otter
- African golden cat
Animals that get as old as a Leopard cat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with 12.33 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- European polecat with 14 years
- Equatorial saki with 14.83 years
- Pygmy marmoset with 15.08 years
- Swamp wallaby with 15 years
- Philippine tarsier with 15 years
- Black-mantled tamarin with 15.17 years
- Greater dwarf lemur with 15 years
- Black-backed jackal with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Leopard cat
What other animals weight around 2.78 kg (6.14 lbs)?
- Yellow-throated marten usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Eastern falanouc usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Sand cat usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.61 kgs (5.75 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Corsac fox usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit usually reaching 2.51 kgs (5.53 lbs)
- Dryas monkey usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Azara’s agouti usually reaching 2.98 kgs (6.57 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Leopard cat
Also reaching around 68.4 cm (2′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Red forest duiker gets as big as 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Hamadryas baboon gets as big as 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Tayra gets as big as 61.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Andean mountain cat gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Red-faced spider monkey gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Assam macaque gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Sulawesi palm civet gets as big as 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-handed howler gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)