It is hard to guess what a Andean mountain cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Andean mountain cat (Oreailurus jacobita) on average weights 8.13 kg (17.92 lbs).
The Andean mountain cat is from the family Felidae (genus: Oreailurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.2 cm (2′ 0″).
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 Andean mountain cat (Leopardus jacobita) is a small wild cat native to the high Andes that has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List because fewer than 2,500 individuals are thought to exist in the wild. It is traditionally considered a sacred animal by indigenous Aymara and Quechua people.It was first described by Emilio Cornalia who named it in honour of Jacobita Mantegazza.
Animals of the same family as a Andean mountain cat
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Eurasian lynx bringing 19.3 kilos (42.55 lbs) to the scale
- Margay bringing 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) to the scale
- Andean mountain cat bringing 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) to the scale
- Leopard cat bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Kodkod bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas cat bringing 4.4 kilos (9.7 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguarundi bringing 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs) to the scale
- Geoffroy’s cat bringing 2.73 kilos (6.02 lbs) to the scale
- Marbled cat bringing 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs) to the scale
- Serval bringing 11.9 kilos (26.23 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Andean mountain cat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oreailurus jacobita:
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Tana River red colobus with a weight of 8.07 kilos (17.79 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur with a weight of 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a weight of 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs)
- Asian golden cat with a weight of 7.73 kilos (17.04 lbs)
- Large Indian civet with a weight of 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs)
- Patagonian mara with a weight of 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey with a weight of 9.07 kilos (20 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon with a weight of 6.7 kilos (14.77 lbs)
- Red-faced spider monkey with a weight of 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Andean mountain cat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Andean mountain cat:
- White-fronted surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- American badger with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tres Marias raccoon with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Andean mountain cat with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Capped langur with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sand cat with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a size of 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Kloss’s gibbon with a size of 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)