It is hard to guess what a Snow leopard weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Snow leopard (Uncia uncia) on average weights 32.5 kg (71.65 lbs).
The Snow leopard is from the family Felidae (genus: Uncia). It is usually born with about 443 grams (0.98 lbs). They can live for up to 18 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.15 meter (3′ 10″). Usually, Snow leopards 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 snow leopard (Panthera uncia), also known as the ounce, is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because the global population is estimated to number less than 10,000 mature individuals and is expected to decline about 10% by 2040. It is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction following infrastructural developments.It inhabits alpine and subalpine zones at elevations from 3,000 to 4,500 m (9,800 to 14,800 ft), ranging from eastern Afghanistan to Mongolia and western China. In the northern range countries, it also lives at lower elevations.Taxonomically, the snow leopard was long classified in the monotypic genus Uncia. Since phylogenetic studies revealed the relationships among Panthera species, it is considered a member of this genus. Two subspecies were described based on morphological differences, but genetic differences between the two have not been confirmed. It is therefore regarded a monotypic species.
Animals of the same family as a Snow leopard
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Pallas’s cat bringing 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese mountain cat bringing 5.49 kilos (12.1 lbs) to the scale
- Caracal bringing 11.98 kilos (26.41 lbs) to the scale
- Canada lynx bringing 9.73 kilos (21.45 lbs) to the scale
- Fishing cat bringing 8.83 kilos (19.47 lbs) to the scale
- Cheetah bringing 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs) to the scale
- Andean mountain cat bringing 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguar bringing 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs) to the scale
- African golden cat bringing 11.29 kilos (24.89 lbs) to the scale
- Jaguarundi bringing 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Snow leopard
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uncia uncia:
- Dwarf blue sheep with a weight of 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs)
- Przewalski’s gazelle with a weight of 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- Red goral with a weight of 28.68 kilos (63.23 lbs)
- Red wolf with a weight of 26.7 kilos (58.86 lbs)
- Tibetan antelope with a weight of 32.66 kilos (72 lbs)
- Dibatag with a weight of 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs)
- Springbok with a weight of 33.39 kilos (73.61 lbs)
- White-lipped peccary with a weight of 31.6 kilos (69.67 lbs)
- Striped hyena with a weight of 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Snow leopard
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Snow leopard:
- Red river hog with a size of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Blackbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Wild boar with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Mountain reedbuck with a size of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Snow leopard
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Snow leopard:
- Moupin pika
- Platypus
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset
- Slender rat
- Indian crested porcupine
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- Edward’s swamp rat
- Bottego’s shrew
- Chestnut tree mouse
- Common rufous-nosed rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Snow leopard
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Snow leopard:
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with an average maximal age of 19.75 years
- American marten with an average maximal age of 19 years
- Egyptian mongoose with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Ross seal with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Big brown bat with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Hector’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Swamp wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Cattle with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with an average maximal age of 19.25 years