How many baby Pallas’s cats are in a litter?
A Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus 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: Otocolobus). An adult Pallas’s cat grows up to a size of 57.6 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.
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:
- Andean mountain cat weighting around 8.13 kilograms (17.92 lbs)
- Black-footed cat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Margay with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Canada lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Leopard cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jungle cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Serval with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Marbled cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- African golden cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pallas’s cat
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Madras treeshrew
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil
- Smith’s vole
- Greater white-toothed shrew
- Giant naked-tailed rat
- North African gerbil
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Utah prairie dog
- Common vole
Animals with the same weight as a Pallas’s cat
What other animals weight around 3.05 kg (6.72 lbs)?
- Flat-headed cat usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Crested mona monkey usually reaching 3.58 kgs (7.89 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Asian small-clawed otter usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Dusky pademelon usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
- Small Indian civet usually reaching 2.95 kgs (6.5 lbs)
- Jackson’s mongoose usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Rüppell’s fox usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pallas’s cat
Also reaching around 57.6 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Gee’s golden langur gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Ursine colobus gets as big as 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Alaskan hare gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Mantled guereza gets as big as 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo gets as big as 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Red-faced spider monkey gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Geoffroy’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- White-thighed surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pampas cat gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)