It is hard to guess what a Iberian lynx weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) on average weights 11.08 kg (24.42 lbs).
The Iberian lynx is from the family Felidae (genus: Lynx). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 96.3 cm (3′ 2″). Usually, Iberian lynxs 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 Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is a wild cat species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. In the 20th century, the Iberian lynx population had declined because of overhunting and poaching, fragmentation of suitable habitats; the population of its main prey species, the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), experienced a severe decline caused by myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease.By the turn of the 21st century, the Iberian lynx was on the verge of extinction, as only about 100 individuals survived in two isolated subpopulations in Andalusia. Conservation measures were implemented since 2002 which included improving habitat, restocking of rabbits, translocating, re-introducing and monitoring Iberian lynxes. By 2012, the population had increased to 326 individuals.It is a monotypic species and is thought to have evolved from Lynx issiodorensis.
Animals of the same family as a Iberian lynx
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Andean mountain cat bringing 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) to the scale
- Asian golden cat bringing 7.73 kilos (17.04 lbs) to the scale
- Caracal bringing 11.98 kilos (26.41 lbs) to the scale
- Cat bringing 2.88 kilos (6.35 lbs) to the scale
- Pampas cat bringing 4.4 kilos (9.7 lbs) to the scale
- Pallas’s cat bringing 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs) to the scale
- Black-footed cat bringing 1.36 kilos (3 lbs) to the scale
- Eurasian lynx bringing 19.3 kilos (42.55 lbs) to the scale
- Margay bringing 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) to the scale
- Snow leopard bringing 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Iberian lynx
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lynx pardinus:
- Red forest duiker with a weight of 12.36 kilos (27.25 lbs)
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Eurasian otter with a weight of 8.86 kilos (19.53 lbs)
- Capped langur with a weight of 11.21 kilos (24.71 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.12 kilos (20.11 lbs)
- Coyote with a weight of 12 kilos (26.46 lbs)
- Siamang with a weight of 10.84 kilos (23.9 lbs)
- Toolache wallaby with a weight of 10 kilos (22.05 lbs)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.98 kilos (19.8 lbs)
- Barbary macaque with a weight of 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Iberian lynx
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Iberian lynx:
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Siberian musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Cameroon clawless otter with a size of 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- African clawless otter with a size of 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Eastern grey kangaroo with a size of 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- Japanese macaque with a size of 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Goitered gazelle with a size of 95.8 cm (3′ 2″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Ethiopian wolf with a size of 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Iberian lynx
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Iberian lynx: