What is the maximal age a Cape genet reaches?
An adult Cape genet (Genetta tigrina) usually gets as old as 15 years.
Cape genets are around 71 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 85 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). As a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Genetta), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″).
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 Cape genet (Genetta tigrina), also known as the South African large-spotted genet, is a genet species endemic to South Africa. As it is common and not threatened, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.Like other genets, it is nocturnal and arboreal, preferring to live in the riparian zones of forests, as long as these are not marshy areas.
Animals of the same family as a Cape genet
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Viverridae):
- Spotted linsang with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Malabar large-spotted civet becoming 14 years old
- Malayan civet becoming 12 years old
- Banded palm civet becoming 12 years old
- Fossa (animal) becoming 20 years old
- Small-toothed palm civet becoming 15.83 years old
- Aquatic genet growing to a mass of 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
- Asian palm civet becoming 22.42 years old
- Giant forest genet growing to a mass of 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Abyssinian genet growing to a mass of 1.41 kgs (3.11 lbs)
Animals that reach the same age as Cape genet
With an average age of 15 years, Cape genet are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Commerson’s dolphin usually reaching 18 years
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 18 years
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 15 years
- Royal antelope usually reaching 14 years
- Kirk’s dik-dik usually reaching 16.5 years
- Harnessed bushbuck usually reaching 13 years
- Pygmy marmoset usually reaching 15.08 years
- Long-tailed goral usually reaching 13.17 years
- Silvery marmoset usually reaching 16.75 years
- Black-mantled tamarin usually reaching 15.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Cape genet
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat
- Brown hyena
- Indian grey mongoose
- Greater stick-nest rat
- Brown deer mouse
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Epixerus
- African wading rat
Weighting as much as Cape genet
A fully grown Cape genet reaches around 2.07 kg (4.56 lbs). So do these animals:
- Java mouse-deer weighting 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs) on average
- Steppe polecat weighting 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs) on average
- Striped skunk weighting 2.4 kilos (5.29 lbs) on average
- Abyssinian hare weighting 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs) on average
- Coppery ringtail possum weighting 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) on average
- Alpine woolly rat weighting 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) on average
- Hoary marmot weighting 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs) on average
- Monk saki weighting 2.11 kilos (4.65 lbs) on average
- Jameson’s red rock hare weighting 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs) on average
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine weighting 2 kilos (4.41 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Cape genet
Those animals grow as big as a Cape genet:
- White-striped dorcopsis with 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Rock hyrax with 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pennant’s colobus with 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Northern plains gray langur with 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Giant bandicoot with 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bahamian raccoon with 46.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- European hare with 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Diademed sifaka with 50.1 cm (1′ 8″)
- François’ langur with 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)