How many baby Margays are in a litter?
A Margay (Leopardus wiedii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 82 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 158 grams (0.35 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Leopardus). An adult Margay grows up to a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″).
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 margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a small wild cat native to Central and South America. A solitary and nocturnal cat, it lives mainly in primary evergreen and deciduous forest.Until the 1990s, margays were hunted illegally for the wildlife trade, which resulted in a large population decrease. Since 2008, the margay has been listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because the population is thought to be declining due to loss of habitat following deforestation.In his first description, Schinz named the margay Felis wiedii in honour of Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied who collected specimens in Brazil.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Margay is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Cat becoming 34 years old
- Jungle cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Flat-headed cat weighting around 3.53 kilograms (7.78 lbs)
- Fishing cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Caracal with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Clouded leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Andean mountain cat weighting around 8.13 kilograms (17.92 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- African golden cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Margay
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Crested mona monkey
- Hirola
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat
- Harp seal
- Bechstein’s bat
- Dusky elephant shrew
- Greater nectar bat
- Bornean orangutan
Animals that get as old as a Margay
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Sumatran serow with 21 years
- Ring-tailed cat with 16.5 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 21 years
- Galápagos fur seal with 22 years
- White-lipped peccary with 21 years
- Brazilian porcupine with 17.25 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 22.83 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
- Big hairy armadillo with 20 years
- Nile lechwe with 18.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Margay
What other animals weight around 3.27 kg (7.21 lbs)?
- Black agouti usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Groundhog usually reaching 3.88 kgs (8.55 lbs)
- Golden palm civet usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Brown palm civet usually reaching 3.55 kgs (7.83 lbs)
- Cozumel raccoon usually reaching 2.96 kgs (6.53 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Margay
Also reaching around 60 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- White-sided jackrabbit gets as big as 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Patas monkey gets as big as 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Mountain hare gets as big as 50.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Marsh mongoose gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Spotted-necked otter gets as big as 59.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Alaskan hare gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bush dog gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Ethiopian highland hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)