How many baby Snow leopards are in a litter?
A Snow leopard (Uncia uncia) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 101 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 443 grams (0.98 lbs) and measure 8.4 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Felidae family (genus: Uncia). An adult Snow leopard grows up to a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 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 snow leopard (Panthera uncia), also known as the ounce, is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because the global population is estimated to number less than 10,000 mature individuals and is expected to decline about 10% by 2040. It is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction following infrastructural developments.It inhabits alpine and subalpine zones at elevations from 3,000 to 4,500 m (9,800 to 14,800 ft), ranging from eastern Afghanistan to Mongolia and western China. In the northern range countries, it also lives at lower elevations.Taxonomically, the snow leopard was long classified in the monotypic genus Uncia. Since phylogenetic studies revealed the relationships among Panthera species, it is considered a member of this genus. Two subspecies were described based on morphological differences, but genetic differences between the two have not been confirmed. It is therefore regarded a monotypic species.
Other animals of the family Felidae
Snow leopard is a member of the Felidae, as are these animals:
- Bobcat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fishing cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- European wildcat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Geoffroy’s cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jungle cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cheetah with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s cat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguar with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ocelot with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Snow leopard
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Armored rat
- Eurasian beaver
- Sclater’s golden mole
- Silvery mole-rat
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Southern pocket gopher
- Watson’s climbing rat
Animals that get as old as a Snow leopard
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- Bechstein’s bat with 21 years
- Marsh mongoose with 17.42 years
- Sumatran serow with 21 years
- Greater mouse-deer with 16.25 years
- Gemsbok with 20 years
- Dorcas gazelle with 17.42 years
- Kit fox with 20 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with 21.17 years
- California myotis with 15 years
- Geoffroy’s bat with 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a Snow leopard
What other animals weight around 32.5 kg (71.65 lbs)?
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Finless porpoise usually reaching 32.5 kgs (71.65 lbs)
- Pyrenean chamois usually reaching 30 kgs (66.14 lbs)
- Mongolian gazelle usually reaching 28.22 kgs (62.21 lbs)
- Sheep usually reaching 37.47 kgs (82.61 lbs)
- Sea otter usually reaching 27.46 kgs (60.54 lbs)
- White-lipped peccary usually reaching 31.6 kgs (69.67 lbs)
- Pampas deer usually reaching 34.55 kgs (76.17 lbs)
- Springbok usually reaching 33.39 kgs (73.61 lbs)
- Common wombat usually reaching 26 kgs (57.32 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Snow leopard
Also reaching around 1.15 meter (3′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Four-horned antelope gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Falkland Islands wolf gets as big as 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Pampas deer gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Buru babirusa gets as big as 95 cm (3′ 2″)
- Philippine warty pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Goitered gazelle gets as big as 95.8 cm (3′ 2″)
- Visayan warty pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Common wombat gets as big as 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)