It is hard to guess what a Chinese mountain cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti) on average weights 5.49 kg (12.1 lbs).
The Chinese mountain cat is from the family Felidae (genus: Felis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 78.6 cm (2′ 7″).
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 Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti), also known as Chinese desert cat and Chinese steppe cat, is a wild cat endemic to western China that has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the effective population size may be fewer than 10,000 mature breeding individuals.It was provisionally classified as a wildcat subspecies with the name F. silvestris bieti in 2007.It is recognised as a valid species since 2017, as it is morphologically distinct from wildcats.
Animals of the same family as a Chinese mountain cat
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Black-footed cat bringing 1.36 kilos (3 lbs) to the scale
- Cougar bringing 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs) to the scale
- Asian golden cat bringing 7.73 kilos (17.04 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas cat bringing 4.4 kilos (9.7 lbs) to the scale
- Lion bringing 158.75 kilos (349.98 lbs) to the scale
- Marbled cat bringing 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs) to the scale
- Flat-headed cat bringing 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) to the scale
- Bobcat bringing 6.38 kilos (14.07 lbs) to the scale
- Canada lynx bringing 9.73 kilos (21.45 lbs) to the scale
- Snow leopard bringing 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese mountain cat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Felis bieti:
- Brown howler with a weight of 5.19 kilos (11.44 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon with a weight of 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs)
- Preuss’s monkey with a weight of 5.14 kilos (11.33 lbs)
- Maroon leaf monkey with a weight of 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs)
- Coypu with a weight of 6.36 kilos (14.02 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 6.5 kilos (14.33 lbs)
- Mantled howler with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- Agile gibbon with a weight of 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a weight of 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Chinese mountain cat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chinese mountain cat:
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Black-footed gray langur with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Indian crested porcupine with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Black musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Western long-beaked echidna with a size of 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)