It is hard to guess what a Flat-headed cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) on average weights 3.53 kg (7.79 lbs).
The Flat-headed cat is from the family Felidae (genus: Prionailurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 46.7 cm (1′ 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 flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) is a small wild cat native to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra. It is an Endangered species, because the wild population probably comprises fewer than 2,500 mature individuals, with small subpopulations of no more than 250 adults. The population inhabits foremost wetlands, which are being destroyed and converted. For these reasons, it is listed on the IUCN Red List since 2008.It was initially placed in the genus Felis, but is now considered one of the five species in Prionailurus.Flat-headed cats are very rare in captivity, with fewer than 10 individuals, all kept in Malaysian and Thai zoos as recorded by Species360.
Animals of the same family as a Flat-headed cat
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Oncilla bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Caracal bringing 11.98 kilos (26.41 lbs) to the scale
- Bay cat bringing 3.43 kilos (7.56 lbs) to the scale
- African golden cat bringing 11.29 kilos (24.89 lbs) to the scale
- Cougar bringing 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs) to the scale
- Lion bringing 158.75 kilos (349.98 lbs) to the scale
- Cat bringing 2.88 kilos (6.35 lbs) to the scale
- Kodkod bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Rusty-spotted cat bringing 1.42 kilos (3.13 lbs) to the scale
- Marbled cat bringing 2.83 kilos (6.24 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Flat-headed cat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Prionailurus planiceps:
- Antelope jackrabbit with a weight of 3.93 kilos (8.66 lbs)
- Parma wallaby with a weight of 4.16 kilos (9.17 lbs)
- Mona monkey with a weight of 3.98 kilos (8.77 lbs)
- Red-tailed monkey with a weight of 3.54 kilos (7.8 lbs)
- Philippine porcupine with a weight of 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat with a weight of 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Short-eared possum with a weight of 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs)
- Margay with a weight of 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with a weight of 3.86 kilos (8.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Flat-headed cat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Flat-headed cat:
- Hoolock gibbon with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ground cuscus with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Brown howler with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bay cat with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Menzbier’s marmot with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Diana monkey with a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Rüppell’s fox with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Rhesus macaque with a size of 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Stein’s cuscus with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)