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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Chinese mountain cat

Felis bieti Milne-Edwards, 1892

القط الجبلي الصيني المعروف أيضًا باسم القط الصحراوي الصيني، هو نوع من جنس القطط ينتشر في غرب الصين، عرض على القائمة الحمراء للأنواع المهددة بالانقراض منذ عام 2002، حيث أن العدد الفعلي لهذه القطط قد يكون أقل من 10,000.

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Also called
Felis bieti, Chinese alpine steppe cat, Chinese desert cat, Chinese steppe cat, grass cat
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
5.49 kg
Body length
0.77 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
28 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Chinese mountain cat

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.49 kg
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Body length
0.77 m
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Brain mass
38 g
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Maximum lifespan
28 years
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Generation length
7.95 years
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Age at maturity
306 days
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Gestation
65 days
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Litter size
about 4
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
1.29 km²
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Population density
0.36 per km²
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Volume l
5.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Chinese mountain cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyFelidae
  6. ›genusFelis
  7. ›speciesFelis bieti
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. genusFelis
  4. speciesFelis silvestris
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderFeliformia
  13. familyFelidae
  14. genusFelis
  15. speciesFelis silvestris
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Closest relative on this site
🐈 Cat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.8 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals100%
In other languages
Graukatze (de), Felis bieti (es), Chat de Biet (fr), Q8514猫 (zh), Kot tybetański (pl), חתול מדבר סיני (he) … and 25 more languages
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