How many baby Rusty-spotted cats are in a litter?
A Rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 84 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Prionailurus). An adult Rusty-spotted cat grows up to a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″).
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 rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) is one of the cat family’s smallest members, of which historical records are known only from India and Sri Lanka. In 2012, it was also recorded in the western Terai of Nepal. Since 2016, the global wild population is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List as it is fragmented and affected by loss and destruction of prime habitat, deciduous forests.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Rusty-spotted cat is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Lion with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Geoffroy’s cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguarundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Canada lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sand cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Eurasian lynx with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Caracal with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Rusty-spotted cat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Bushpig
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Layard’s palm squirrel
- Lesser yellow bat
- Red panda
- Rock hyrax
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat
- Kimberley rock rat
- African civet
Animals with the same weight as a Rusty-spotted cat
What other animals weight around 1.42 kg (3.13 lbs)?
- Brown greater galago usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose usually reaching 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs)
- Hainan hare usually reaching 1.52 kgs (3.35 lbs)
- Jamaican coney usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Chacoan mara usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Beech marten usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.43 kgs (3.15 lbs)
- White-faced saki usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Rusty-spotted cat
Also reaching around 40.6 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Nasuella olivacea gets as big as 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Pale fox gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit gets as big as 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Ring-tailed lemur gets as big as 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ruddy mongoose gets as big as 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Rüppell’s fox gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Amami rabbit gets as big as 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)