It is hard to guess what a African golden cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult African golden cat (Profelis aurata) on average weights 11.29 kg (24.88 lbs).
The African golden cat is from the family Felidae (genus: Profelis). It is usually born with about 212 grams (0.47 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 79.9 cm (2′ 8″). Usually, African golden cats have 2 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a wild cat endemic to the rainforests of West and Central Africa. It is threatened due to deforestation and bushmeat hunting and listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. It is a close relative of both the caracal and the serval. Previously, it was placed in the genus Profelis. Its body size ranges from 61 to 101 cm (24 to 40 in) with a 16 to 46 cm (6.3 to 18.1 in) long tail.
Animals of the same family as a African golden cat
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Tiger bringing 162.28 kilos (357.77 lbs) to the scale
- Asian golden cat bringing 7.73 kilos (17.04 lbs) to the scale
- Rusty-spotted cat bringing 1.42 kilos (3.13 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese mountain cat bringing 5.49 kilos (12.1 lbs) to the scale
- Pallas’s cat bringing 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas cat bringing 4.4 kilos (9.7 lbs) to the scale
- Caracal bringing 11.98 kilos (26.41 lbs) to the scale
- Andean mountain cat bringing 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) to the scale
- Marbled cat bringing 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs) to the scale
- Margay bringing 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a African golden cat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Profelis aurata:
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs)
- Ground pangolin with a weight of 11.92 kilos (26.28 lbs)
- Wolverine with a weight of 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker with a weight of 9.25 kilos (20.39 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac with a weight of 13.5 kilos (29.76 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.09 kilos (20.04 lbs)
- Ocelot with a weight of 11.89 kilos (26.21 lbs)
- White-bellied duiker with a weight of 13.1 kilos (28.88 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer with a weight of 13.31 kilos (29.34 lbs)
- Black-footed gray langur with a weight of 10.03 kilos (22.11 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a African golden cat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as African golden cat:
- Canada lynx with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Japanese macaque with a size of 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Lowland paca with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a size of 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Fisher (animal) with a size of 75.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- African wild dog with a size of 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Jungle cat with a size of 70.6 cm (2′ 4″)
- White-bellied duiker with a size of 94 cm (3′ 2″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a African golden cat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a African golden cat: