It is hard to guess what a Asian golden cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) on average weights 7.73 kg (17.05 lbs).
The Asian golden cat is from the family Felidae (genus: Catopuma). It is usually born with about 166 grams (0.37 lbs). They can live for up to 18 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 89 cm (3′ 0″). Usually, Asian golden cats have 1 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 Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) is a medium-sized wild cat native to the northeastern Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and southern China. It has been listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2008, and is threatened by hunting pressure and habitat loss, since Southeast Asian forests are undergoing the world’s fastest regional deforestation.The Asian golden cat’s scientific name honours the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. It is also called Temminck’s cat and Asiatic golden cat.
Animals of the same family as a Asian golden cat
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Caracal bringing 11.98 kilos (26.41 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguar bringing 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs) to the scale
- Jungle cat bringing 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese mountain cat bringing 5.49 kilos (12.1 lbs) to the scale
- European wildcat bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Cougar bringing 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas cat bringing 4.4 kilos (9.7 lbs) to the scale
- Oncilla bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Margay bringing 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) to the scale
- Geoffroy’s cat bringing 2.73 kilos (6.02 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Asian golden cat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Catopuma temminckii:
- King colobus with a weight of 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs)
- Dusky leaf monkey with a weight of 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.09 kilos (20.04 lbs)
- Raccoon with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
- White-bellied spider monkey with a weight of 6.71 kilos (14.79 lbs)
- Diademed sifaka with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- Bush dog with a weight of 6.32 kilos (13.93 lbs)
- Large Indian civet with a weight of 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs)
- Zanzibar red colobus with a weight of 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs)
- Hog badger with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Asian golden cat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Asian golden cat:
- Pacarana with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Wolf with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Iberian lynx with a size of 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Speke’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Siberian musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Peters’s duiker with a size of 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Binturong with a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Hairy-nosed otter with a size of 76.5 cm (2′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Asian golden cat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Asian golden cat:
- Magdalena rat
- Dryas monkey
- Handley’s tailless bat
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- Arabian tahr
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Common duiker
- Darling’s horseshoe bat
- Melck’s house bat
- Great flying fox
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Asian golden cat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Asian golden cat:
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 21.17 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Giant armadillo with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Pygmy sperm whale with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Fossa (animal) with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Big hairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Cattle with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Harbour porpoise with an average maximal age of 15 years