How many baby Oncillas are in a litter?
A Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 39 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Leopardus). An adult Oncilla grows up to a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″).
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 oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo, is a small spotted cat ranging from Central America to central Brazil. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because the population is threatened by deforestation and conversion of habitat to agricultural land.In 2013, it was proposed to assign the population in southern Brazil and Cuyoaco to a new species L. guttulus, after it was found not to be interbreeding with the L. tigrinus population in northeast Brazil.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Oncilla is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Cheetah with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese mountain cat weighting around 5.49 kilograms (12.1 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ocelot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sand cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Clouded leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Andean mountain cat weighting around 8.13 kilograms (17.92 lbs)
- Fishing cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Caracal with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Oncilla
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Himalayan goral
- Fallow deer
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Gelada
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Bighorn sheep
- Sulawesi rousette
- Greater long-nosed bat
- Northern common cuscus
- Brazilian big-eyed bat
Animals that get as old as a Oncilla
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Chinese ferret-badger with 10.5 years
- Pallid bat with 9.08 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Dice’s cottontail with 9 years
- Silver-haired bat with 12 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat with 10 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with 9 years
- Crowned lemur with 9.17 years
- Banded mongoose with 12 years
- Golden hamster with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Oncilla
What other animals weight around 1.11 kg (2.44 lbs)?
- Bahamian hutia weighting 912 grams
- Chestnut-bellied titi weighting 992 grams
- Northern bettong usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Gambian pouched rat usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Black-footed ferret weighting 907 grams
- Northern viscacha usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.04 kgs (2.29 lbs)
- Lemur-like ringtail possum weighting 997 grams
- Cacomistle weighting 906 grams
- Blanford’s fox weighting 994 grams
Animals with the same size as a Oncilla
Also reaching around 25 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Big-headed African mole-rat gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Florida naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mariana fruit bat gets as big as 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Buffy-tufted marmoset gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Vogelkop ringtail possum gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Colombian weasel gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Silvery lutung gets as big as 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)