It is hard to guess what a Ring-tailed cat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ring-tailed cat (Bassariscus astutus) on average weights 1.02 kg (2.24 lbs).
The Ring-tailed cat is from the family Procyonidae (genus: Bassariscus). It is usually born with about 27 grams (0.06 lbs). They can live for up to 16.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 33.9 cm (1′ 2″). On average, Ring-tailed cats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family, native to arid regions of North America. Even though it is not a cat, it is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat, miner’s cat or bassarisk, and is also sometimes called a “civet cat” (after similar, though only distantly related, cat-like carnivores of Asia and Africa). The ringtail is sometimes called a cacomistle, though this term seems to be more often used to refer to Bassariscus sumichrasti.
Animals of the same family as a Ring-tailed cat
We found other animals of the Procyonidae family:
- Cacomistle with a weight of 906 grams
- White-nosed coati bringing 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs) to the scale
- Northern olingo bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Tres Marias raccoon with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Northern olingo bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Northern olingo bringing 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs) to the scale
- Cozumel raccoon bringing 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo with a weight of 620 grams
- South American coati bringing 3.78 kilos (8.33 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Ring-tailed cat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bassariscus astutus:
- Northern greater galago bringing 812 grams to the scale
- White-tailed prairie dog bringing 964 grams to the scale
- White-eared titi bringing 898 grams to the scale
- Screaming hairy armadillo bringing 930 grams to the scale
- Green ringtail possum with a weight of 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs)
- Bahamian hutia bringing 912 grams to the scale
- Eastern cottontail with a weight of 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs)
- Emperor rat with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Chinese ferret-badger bringing 939 grams to the scale
- Hispaniolan solenodon bringing 893 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ring-tailed cat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ring-tailed cat:
- Black-capped squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail with a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Grey-headed flying fox with a size of 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Gambian pouched rat with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Brown greater galago with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Greater bamboo lemur with a size of 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ring-tailed cat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Ring-tailed cat:
- Gray climbing mouse
- Nimba otter shrew
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Cotton mouse
- Volcano harvest mouse
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
- Japanese mole
- Pale kangaroo mouse
- Xerus erythropus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Ring-tailed cat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Ring-tailed cat:
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
- Yellow-throated marten with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Eld’s deer with an average maximal age of 19.33 years
- Raccoon dog with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Eld’s deer with an average maximal age of 19.33 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Santarem marmoset with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Alpine marmot with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Nabarlek with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Royal antelope with an average maximal age of 14 years