What is the maximal age a Asian golden cat reaches?
An adult Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) usually gets as old as 18 years.
Asian golden cats are around 99 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 166 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). As a member of the Felidae family (genus: Catopuma), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 89 cm (3′ 0″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) is a medium-sized wild cat native to the northeastern Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and southern China. It has been listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2008, and is threatened by hunting pressure and habitat loss, since Southeast Asian forests are undergoing the world’s fastest regional deforestation.The Asian golden cat’s scientific name honours the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. It is also called Temminck’s cat and Asiatic golden cat.
Animals of the same family as a Asian golden cat
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Felidae):
- Jaguar becoming 23 years old
- Eurasian lynx becoming 26.75 years old
- Leopard becoming 23 years old
- Cougar becoming 20 years old
- Fishing cat becoming 10 years old
- Leopard cat becoming 15 years old
- Jaguarundi becoming 10.58 years old
- Jungle cat becoming 12 years old
- Tiger becoming 26.25 years old
- Oncilla becoming 10 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Asian golden cat
With an average age of 18 years, Asian golden cat are in good companionship of the following animals:
- South African springhare usually reaching 14.5 years
- Sheep usually reaching 19.17 years
- Menzbier’s marmot usually reaching 15 years
- Impala usually reaching 17.75 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo usually reaching 20.17 years
- Himalayan goral usually reaching 17.58 years
- Southern reedbuck usually reaching 16.75 years
- Tricolored bat usually reaching 15 years
- Celebes crested macaque usually reaching 18 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset usually reaching 17.83 years
Animals with the same number of babies Asian golden cat
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Irrawaddy dolphin
- Western broad-nosed bat
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Greater noctule bat
- Big-eared flying fox
- Atlantic bamboo rat
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Alpine ibex
- Mahogany glider
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
Weighting as much as Asian golden cat
A fully grown Asian golden cat reaches around 7.73 kg (17.05 lbs). So do these animals:
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka weighting 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs) on average
- Thomas’s langur weighting 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs) on average
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby weighting 8.5 kilos (18.74 lbs) on average
- Bobcat weighting 6.38 kilos (14.07 lbs) on average
- Andean mountain cat weighting 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs) on average
- Malayan porcupine weighting 8 kilos (17.64 lbs) on average
- Aders’s duiker weighting 9.25 kilos (20.39 lbs) on average
- Indri weighting 8.61 kilos (18.98 lbs) on average
- Tana River mangabey weighting 7.08 kilos (15.61 lbs) on average
- Assam macaque weighting 8.55 kilos (18.85 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Asian golden cat
Those animals grow as big as a Asian golden cat:
- Siberian musk deer with 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Steenbok with 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- African wild dog with 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Collared peccary with 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Serval with 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Smooth-coated otter with 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Ethiopian wolf with 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- African golden cat with 79.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Side-striped jackal with 74.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Golden jackal with 83 cm (2′ 9″)