It is hard to guess what a Margay weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Margay (Leopardus wiedii) on average weights 3.27 kg (7.21 lbs).
The Margay is from the family Felidae (genus: Leopardus). It is usually born with about 158 grams (0.35 lbs). They can live for up to 20 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Margays have 1 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 margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a small wild cat native to Central and South America. A solitary and nocturnal cat, it lives mainly in primary evergreen and deciduous forest.Until the 1990s, margays were hunted illegally for the wildlife trade, which resulted in a large population decrease. Since 2008, the margay has been listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because the population is thought to be declining due to loss of habitat following deforestation.In his first description, Schinz named the margay Felis wiedii in honour of Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied who collected specimens in Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Margay
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Black-footed cat bringing 1.36 kilos (3 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguarundi bringing 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguar bringing 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs) to the scale
- Cheetah bringing 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs) to the scale
- Tiger bringing 162.28 kilos (357.77 lbs) to the scale
- Andean mountain cat bringing 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) to the scale
- Bay cat bringing 3.43 kilos (7.56 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese mountain cat bringing 5.49 kilos (12.1 lbs) to the scale
- Cougar bringing 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs) to the scale
- Sand cat bringing 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Margay
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leopardus wiedii:
- Black bearded saki with a weight of 2.97 kilos (6.55 lbs)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a weight of 2.77 kilos (6.11 lbs)
- Golden-backed uakari with a weight of 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a weight of 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with a weight of 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs)
- Booted macaque with a weight of 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs)
- Tiger quoll with a weight of 3.32 kilos (7.32 lbs)
- Pale fox with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Gray fox with a weight of 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs)
- Wedge-capped capuchin with a weight of 2.79 kilos (6.15 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Margay
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Margay:
- Formosan rock macaque with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tres Marias raccoon with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Agile gibbon with a size of 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Leopard cat with a size of 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- African palm civet with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Sand cat with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sarcophilus laniarius with a size of 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Neotropical otter with a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Margay
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Margay:
- Sclater’s guenon
- Tiny pipistrelle
- Green ringtail possum
- Small dorcopsis
- Mentawai langur
- Woylie
- Northern olingo
- Central American agouti
- Shiny guinea pig
- Variegated butterfly bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Margay
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Margay:
- Ocelot with an average maximal age of 20.25 years
- Père David’s deer with an average maximal age of 23.25 years
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- Barbary macaque with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Northern greater galago with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Sitatunga with an average maximal age of 21.5 years
- Swift fox with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Lechwe with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 17.08 years