It is hard to guess what a Pallas’s cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pallas’s cat (Felis manul) on average weights 3.05 kg (6.72 lbs).
The Pallas’s cat is from the family Felidae (genus: Felis). It is usually born with about 89 grams (0.2 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 57.3 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:
- Iberian lynx bringing 11.08 kilos (24.43 lbs) to the scale
- African golden cat bringing 11.29 kilos (24.89 lbs) to the scale
- Kodkod bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguar bringing 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs) to the scale
- Tiger bringing 162.28 kilos (357.77 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguarundi bringing 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs) to the scale
- Cheetah bringing 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs) to the scale
- Jungle cat bringing 7.16 kilos (15.79 lbs) to the scale
- Clouded leopard bringing 15.02 kilos (33.11 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguarundi bringing 6.88 kilos (15.17 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 Felis manul:
- Western tree hyrax with a weight of 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s cat with a weight of 2.73 kilos (6.02 lbs)
- Sunda stink badger with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit with a weight of 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs)
- Eastern hare-wallaby with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Bald uakari with a weight of 3.42 kilos (7.54 lbs)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Virginia opossum with a weight of 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain with a weight of 3.11 kilos (6.86 lbs)
- Yellow-throated marten with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 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:
- Thick-spined porcupine with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bahamian raccoon with a size of 46.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with a size of 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Bush dog with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Nilgiri marten with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-bellied spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Lar gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Brown howler with a size of 51.4 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: