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How old does a Ring-tailed cat get? (age expectancy)

What is the maximal age a Ring-tailed cat reaches?

An adult Ring-tailed cat (Bassariscus astutus) usually gets as old as 16.5 years.

Ring-tailed cats are around 54 days in the womb of their mother. 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), a Ring-tailed cat caries out around 3 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″).

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.

A Ring-tailed cat gets as old as 16.5 years

The ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family, native to arid regions of North America. Even though it is not a cat, it is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat, miner’s cat or bassarisk, and is also sometimes called a “civet cat” (after similar, though only distantly related, cat-like carnivores of Asia and Africa). The ringtail is sometimes called a cacomistle, though this term seems to be more often used to refer to Bassariscus sumichrasti.

Animals of the same family as a Ring-tailed cat

Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Procyonidae):

Animals that reach the same age as Ring-tailed cat

With an average age of 16.5 years, Ring-tailed cat are in good companionship of the following animals:

Animals with the same number of babies Ring-tailed cat

The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:

Weighting as much as Ring-tailed cat

A fully grown Ring-tailed cat reaches around 1.02 kg (2.24 lbs). So do these animals:

Animals as big as a Ring-tailed cat

Those animals grow as big as a Ring-tailed cat: