It is hard to guess what a Pallas’s cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) on average weights 3.05 kg (6.72 lbs).
The Pallas’s cat is from the family Felidae (genus: Otocolobus). It is usually born with about 89 grams (0.2 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 57.6 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Pallas’s cats have 4 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.
Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul), also called the manul, is a small wild cat with a broad, but fragmented distribution in the grasslands and montane steppes of Central Asia. It is negatively affected by habitat degradation, prey base decline and hunting, and has therefore been classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2002.The Pallas’s cat was first described in 1776 by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas.
Animals of the same family as a Pallas’s cat
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Jungle cat bringing 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs) to the scale
- Lion bringing 158.75 kilos (349.98 lbs) to the scale
- Tiger bringing 162.28 kilos (357.77 lbs) to the scale
- Eurasian lynx bringing 19.3 kilos (42.55 lbs) to the scale
- Kodkod bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Flat-headed cat bringing 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) to the scale
- Sand cat bringing 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguar bringing 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs) to the scale
- Asian golden cat bringing 7.73 kilos (17.04 lbs) to the scale
- Fishing cat bringing 8.83 kilos (19.47 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Pallas’s cat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Otocolobus manul:
- Cape fox with a weight of 2.92 kilos (6.44 lbs)
- Hoary bamboo rat with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Philippine porcupine with a weight of 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs)
- Egyptian mongoose with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 2.58 kilos (5.69 lbs)
- White-nosed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose with a weight of 3.6 kilos (7.94 lbs)
- Rüppell’s fox with a weight of 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pallas’s cat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pallas’s cat:
- Thollon’s red colobus with a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-tailed mongoose with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Southern river otter with a size of 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Lar gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Agile gibbon with a size of 54.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Otter civet with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Flat-headed cat with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Preuss’s monkey with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pallas’s cat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Pallas’s cat: