How many baby Pampas cats are in a litter?
A Pampas cat (Oncifelis colocolo) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 18.36 kg (40.48 lbs) and measure 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Oncifelis). An adult Pampas cat grows up to a size of 61.6 cm (2′ 1″).
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 Pampas cat (Leopardus colocola) is a small wild cat native to South America. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List as habitat conversion and destruction may cause the population to decline in the future.It is also known as Pantanal cat and colocolo in parts of its range. It is named after the Pampas, but occurs in grassland, shrubland, and dry forest at elevations up to 5,000 m (16,000 ft).There was a proposal to divide Pampas cat into three distinct species, based primarily on differences in pelage colour/pattern and cranial measurements. Accordingly, three species were recognised in the 2005 edition of Mammal Species of the World: the colocolo (L. colocolo), the Pantanal cat (L. braccatus), and the Pampas cat (L. pajeros) with a more restricted definition. This split at species level was not supported by subsequent phylogeographic analysis, although some geographical substructure was recognised, and some authorities continue to recognise the Pampas cat as a single species. In the revision of felid taxonomy by the Cat Specialist Group, the Pampas cat is recognised as a single species with seven subspecies.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Pampas cat is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Clouded leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Caracal with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jungle cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed cat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Serval with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bobcat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lion with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Marbled cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Leopard with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pampas cat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Otter civet
- Unalaska collared lemming
- Chiriqui harvest mouse
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- African civet
- Balkan snow vole
- Serval
- Stirton’s deer mouse
- Fawn hopping mouse
- Target rat
Animals with the same weight as a Pampas cat
What other animals weight around 4.4 kg (9.7 lbs)?
- White-nosed coati usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine usually reaching 4.49 kgs (9.9 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Sun-tailed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby usually reaching 5.28 kgs (11.64 lbs)
- Campbell’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.63 kgs (8 lbs)
- Otter civet usually reaching 4.25 kgs (9.37 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pampas cat
Also reaching around 61.6 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Honey badger gets as big as 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Northern plains gray langur gets as big as 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Aardwolf gets as big as 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Gee’s golden langur gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Giant bandicoot gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Rhesus macaque gets as big as 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red panda gets as big as 58.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok gets as big as 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Pampas fox gets as big as 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)