It is hard to guess what a Bobcat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bobcat (Lynx rufus) on average weights 6.38 kg (14.07 lbs).
The Bobcat is from the family Felidae (genus: Lynx). It is usually born with about 300 grams (0.66 lbs). They can live for up to 32.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 69.1 cm (2′ 4″). Usually, Bobcats 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 bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a medium-sized North American cat that first appeared during the Irvingtonian stage around 1.8 million years ago (AEO). Containing two recognized subspecies, it ranges from southern Canada to central Mexico, including most of the contiguous United States. The bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as well as semidesert, urban edge, forest edge, and swampland environments. It remains in some of its original range, but populations are vulnerable to local extinction (“extirpation”) by coyotes and domestic animals. With a gray to brown coat, whiskered face, and black-tufted ears, the bobcat resembles the other species of the midsized genus Lynx. It is smaller on average than the Canada lynx, with which it shares parts of its range, but is about twice as large as the domestic cat. It has distinctive black bars on its forelegs and a black-tipped, stubby (or “bobbed”) tail, from which it derives its name.Though the bobcat prefers rabbits and hares, it hunts insects, chickens, geese and other birds, small rodents, and deer. Prey selection depends on location and habitat, season, and abundance. Like most cats, the bobcat is territorial and largely solitary, although with some overlap in home ranges. It uses several methods to mark its territorial boundaries, including claw marks and deposits of urine or feces. The bobcat breeds from winter into spring and has a gestation period of about two months.Although bobcats have been hunted extensively by humans, both for sport and fur, their population has proven resilient though declining in some areas. The elusive predator features in some Indigenous Peoples’ (of North and Central America) stories and in the folklore of European colonizers.
Animals of the same family as a Bobcat
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Bay cat bringing 3.43 kilos (7.56 lbs) to the scale
- Tiger bringing 162.28 kilos (357.77 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguarundi bringing 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas cat bringing 4.4 kilos (9.7 lbs) to the scale
- Clouded leopard bringing 15.02 kilos (33.11 lbs) to the scale
- Andean mountain cat bringing 8.13 kilos (17.92 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
- Jungle cat bringing 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bobcat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lynx rufus:
- Tibetan sand fox with a weight of 5.54 kilos (12.21 lbs)
- Suni with a weight of 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs)
- Zanzibar red colobus with a weight of 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs)
- Silvery gibbon with a weight of 5.87 kilos (12.94 lbs)
- Purple-faced langur with a weight of 7.53 kilos (16.6 lbs)
- Brown howler with a weight of 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with a weight of 5.7 kilos (12.57 lbs)
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Red-necked pademelon with a weight of 5.4 kilos (11.9 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque with a weight of 7.37 kilos (16.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bobcat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bobcat:
- Japanese macaque with a size of 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Spotted-necked otter with a size of 59.7 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gelada with a size of 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Canada lynx with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a size of 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Brown palm civet with a size of 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Jungle cat with a size of 70.6 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bobcat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Bobcat:
- Gobi jerboa
- Guyenne spiny rat
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Mexican fox squirrel
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Brants’s whistling rat
- Crested servaline genet
- Desert woodrat
- Jungle cat
- Long-nosed bandicoot
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bobcat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bobcat:
- Drill (animal) with an average maximal age of 33.33 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Spectacled bear with an average maximal age of 36.42 years
- Giant panda with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Little brown bat with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Silvery lutung with an average maximal age of 31.08 years
- Giant anteater with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Mongoose lemur with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Common genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Amazonian manatee with an average maximal age of 30 years