What is the maximal age a Kodkod reaches?
An adult Kodkod (Oncifelis guigna) usually gets as old as 11 years.
Kodkods are around 74 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 17 kg (37.48 lbs) and measure 5.1 cm (0′ 3″). As a member of the Felidae family (genus: Oncifelis), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″).
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 kodkod (Leopardus guigna) (Spanish pronunciation: [koðˈkoð]), also called güiña, is the smallest cat in the Americas. It lives primarily in central and southern Chile and marginally in adjoining areas of Argentina. Its area of distribution is small compared to the other South American cats. Since 2002, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List as the total effective population may comprise less than 10,000 mature individuals, and is threatened due to persecution and loss of habitat and prey base.
Animals of the same family as a Kodkod
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Felidae):
- Leopard cat becoming 15 years old
- Caracal becoming 17 years old
- Canada lynx becoming 26.75 years old
- Serval becoming 23 years old
- Geoffroy’s cat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaguar becoming 23 years old
- Bobcat becoming 32.33 years old
- Bay cat growing to a mass of 3.43 kgs (7.56 lbs)
- European wildcat becoming 31 years old
- Cheetah becoming 19 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Kodkod
With an average age of 11 years, Kodkod are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Chinese ferret-badger usually reaching 10.5 years
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 9.5 years
- California leaf-nosed bat usually reaching 10.33 years
- Long-tailed goral usually reaching 13.17 years
- Pallid bat usually reaching 9.08 years
- Asian small-clawed otter usually reaching 10.08 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec usually reaching 10.5 years
- Mountain beaver usually reaching 10 years
- White-tailed mongoose usually reaching 12 years
- Cape ground squirrel usually reaching 13 years
Animals with the same number of babies Kodkod
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Spotted hyena
- Lesser bamboo rat
- Eurasian otter
- Southern yellow bat
- White-lipped tamarin
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Wolverine
- Eastern long-eared bat
Weighting as much as Kodkod
A fully grown Kodkod reaches around 2.5 kg (5.51 lbs). So do these animals:
- Northern common cuscus weighting 2.33 kilos (5.14 lbs) on average
- Pale fox weighting 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs) on average
- Bengal fox weighting 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs) on average
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin weighting 2.52 kilos (5.56 lbs) on average
- Black lemur weighting 2.48 kilos (5.47 lbs) on average
- Abyssinian hare weighting 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs) on average
- White-sided jackrabbit weighting 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs) on average
- Nilgiri marten weighting 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) on average
- Omilteme cottontail weighting 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) on average
- Macleay’s dorcopsis weighting 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Kodkod
Those animals grow as big as a Kodkod:
- Long-footed potoroo with 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Cape hare with 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Malagasy civet with 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Bahamian hutia with 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Tailless tenrec with 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Subalpine woolly rat with 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Japanese marten with 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Short-beaked echidna with 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Sable with 45.1 cm (1′ 6″)