What is the maximal age a Cacomistle reaches?
An adult Cacomistle (Bassariscus sumichrasti) usually gets as old as 23 years.
When born, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 6.27 meter (20′ 7″). As a member of the Procyonidae family (genus: Bassariscus), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 42.5 cm (1′ 5″).
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 cacomistle (Bassariscus sumichrasti) is a nocturnal, arboreal and omnivorous member of the carnivoran family Procyonidae. Its preferred habitats are wet, tropical, evergreen woodlands and mountain forests, though seasonally it will venture into drier deciduous forests.Nowhere in its range (from southern Mexico to western Panama) is B. sumichrasti common. This is especially true in Costa Rica, where it inhabits only a very small area. It is completely dependent on forest habitat, making it particularly susceptible to deforestation.The term cacomistle is from the Nahuatl language (tlahcomiztli) and means “half cat” or “half mountain lion”; it is sometimes also used to refer to the ringtail, Bassariscus astutus, a similar species that inhabits arid northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
Animals of the same family as a Cacomistle
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Procyonidae):
- Northern olingo growing to a mass of 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Bahamian raccoon becoming 21 years old
- Raccoon becoming 20.83 years old
- White-nosed coati becoming 17.67 years old
- Cozumel raccoon growing to a mass of 2.96 kgs (6.53 lbs)
- Tres Marias raccoon getting as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Nasuella olivacea growing to a mass of 1.34 kgs (2.95 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing the scale to 620 grams
- Kinkajou becoming 29 years old
- Eastern lowland olingo growing to a mass of 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
Animals that reach the same age as Cacomistle
With an average age of 23 years, Cacomistle are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Ursine tree-kangaroo usually reaching 20.17 years
- Mountain goat usually reaching 19.17 years
- Asian palm civet usually reaching 22.42 years
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 25 years
- Cheetah usually reaching 19 years
- Brown-mantled tamarin usually reaching 24.5 years
- Blackbuck usually reaching 20.25 years
- Egyptian fruit bat usually reaching 22.83 years
- Mantled howler usually reaching 25 years
- West Caucasian tur usually reaching 20.5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Cacomistle
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Glacier rat
- Van Deusen’s rat
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Fennec fox
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat
- Maned wolf
- Duthie’s golden mole
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Cape dune mole-rat
- Gray tree rat
Weighting as much as Cacomistle
A fully grown Cacomistle reaches around 906 grams (2 lbs). So do these animals:
- Mexican prairie dog with 900 grams
- New England cottontail with 814 grams
- Northern sportive lemur with 760 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot with 825 grams
- Screaming hairy armadillo with 930 grams
- Red-bellied titi with 962 grams
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 903 grams
- Spectacled flying fox with 759 grams
- Eastern woolly lemur weighting 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) on average
- Muskrat with 992 grams
Animals as big as a Cacomistle
Those animals grow as big as a Cacomistle:
- Central African oyan with 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Indian grey mongoose with 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey with 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Amami rabbit with 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Mountain cuscus with 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat with 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Javan surili with 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Lesser grison with 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Crested mona monkey with 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)