It is hard to guess what a Bay cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bay cat (Catopuma badia) on average weights 3.43 kg (7.56 lbs).
The Bay cat is from the family Felidae (genus: Catopuma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 55 cm (1′ 10″).
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 bay cat (Catopuma badia), also known as Borneo bay cat and Bornean bay cat, is a wild cat endemic to the island of Borneo that appears to be relatively rare compared to sympatric wild cats, based on the paucity of historical, as well as recent records. Since 2002, it has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List because it is estimated that fewer than 2,500 mature individuals exist, and that the population declined in the past.The bay cat has been recorded as rare and seems to occur at relatively low density, even in pristine habitat.
Animals of the same family as a Bay cat
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Andean mountain cat bringing 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) to the scale
- Fishing cat bringing 8.83 kilos (19.47 lbs) to the scale
- Clouded leopard bringing 15.02 kilos (33.11 lbs) to the scale
- Flat-headed cat bringing 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) to the scale
- Andean mountain cat bringing 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) to the scale
- Snow leopard bringing 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) to the scale
- Lion bringing 158.75 kilos (349.98 lbs) to the scale
- Oncilla bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Pallas’s cat bringing 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs) to the scale
- Serval bringing 11.9 kilos (26.23 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bay cat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Catopuma badia:
- Pale fox with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with a weight of 3.24 kilos (7.14 lbs)
- Asian small-clawed otter with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)
- Common spotted cuscus with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Bat-eared fox with a weight of 4.07 kilos (8.97 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with a weight of 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs)
- Western tree hyrax with a weight of 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs)
- Asian palm civet with a weight of 3.2 kilos (7.05 lbs)
- Marbled cat with a weight of 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bay cat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bay cat:
- Northern plains gray langur with a size of 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a size of 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-flanked duiker with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Bald uakari with a size of 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lowland paca with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Andean mountain cat with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- White-striped dorcopsis with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)