How big does a Oncilla get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) reaches an average size of 25 cm (0′ 10″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 10 years, they grow from 30 grams (0.07 lbs) to 1.11 kg (2.44 lbs). A Oncilla has 1 babies at once. The Oncilla (genus: Leopardus) is a member of the family Felidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo, is a small spotted cat ranging from Central America to central Brazil. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because the population is threatened by deforestation and conversion of habitat to agricultural land.In 2013, it was proposed to assign the population in southern Brazil and Cuyoaco to a new species L. guttulus, after it was found not to be interbreeding with the L. tigrinus population in northeast Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Oncilla
We found other animals of the Felidae family:
- Geoffroy’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tiger with a size of 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Iberian lynx with a size of 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bobcat with a size of 69.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Ocelot with a size of 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- African golden cat with a size of 79.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Asian golden cat with a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Black-footed cat with a size of 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- Kodkod with a size of 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Oncilla
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Oncilla:
- Northern quoll with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mentawai squirrel with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Chinese red pika with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Buffy-headed marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Buffy-tufted marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Deppe’s squirrel with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Oncilla
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Oncilla:
- Springbok
- Tiny pipistrelle
- Sulawesi rousette
- Black flying fox
- Mountain paca
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Dall sheep
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Oncilla
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Oncilla:
- Sarcophilus laniarius with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Taruca with an average maximal age of 10.58 years
- Northern treeshrew with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Blue duiker with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Golden hamster with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Dice’s cottontail with an average maximal age of 9 years
- American red squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Oncilla
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leopardus tigrinus:
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale
- Clara’s echymipera with a weight of 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs)
- Fennec fox with a weight of 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs)
- Greater glider with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey bringing 888 grams to the scale
- Indian grey mongoose with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
- Bengal slow loris with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Poncelet’s giant rat with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- White-tailed prairie dog bringing 964 grams to the scale