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How many babies does a Pallas’s cat have at once? (litter size)

How many baby Pallas’s cats are in a litter?

A Pallas’s cat (Felis manul) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.

Each of those little ones spend around 76 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 89 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Felis). An adult Pallas’s cat grows up to a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″).

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 average litter size of a Pallas's cat is 4

Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul), also called the manul, is a small wild cat with a broad, but fragmented distribution in the grasslands and montane steppes of Central Asia. It is negatively affected by habitat degradation, prey base decline and hunting, and has therefore been classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2002.The Pallas’s cat was first described in 1776 by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.

Other animals of the family Felidae

Pallas’s cat is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:

Animals that share a litter size with Pallas’s cat

Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:

Animals with the same weight as a Pallas’s cat

What other animals weight around 3.05 kg (6.72 lbs)?

Animals with the same size as a Pallas’s cat

Also reaching around 57.3 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals: