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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Cat

Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758

Котка (Felis silvestris catus), наричана също домашна котка, е подвид на дивата котка, бозайник от семейство Коткови (Felidae). Котките живеят в близост до хората от преди поне 3500 години (въпреки че не са изцяло опитомени като кучетата). В Древен Египет котките са били използвани за пазачи на складираното зърно от мишки и други гризачи, като наказанието за убита котка в Древен Египет е било смърт. В наше време котките са едни от най-разпространените домашни любимци. Малък процент от тях (около 1%) са чистокръвни (с регистрирано родословие); останалите 99% са кръстоски между различни породи.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/16th of your weight
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Felis catus yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
3.9 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
0.26 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
30 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Cat

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

Body mass
3.9 kg
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data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Shoulder height
0.26 m0.25–0.27 m · typical range
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Height at the withers of living cats. Males 0.271 m, females 0.247 m.

Source: Poradowski et al. 2024, Veterinary Sciences 11(11):522 · see citation

Maximum lifespan
30 years
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data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
65 days
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data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 4
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data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Volume l
3.9 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 Cat yet: body length, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyFelidae
  6. ›genusFelis
  7. ›speciesFelis catus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyFelidae
  4. genusFelis
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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
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Closest relative on this site
🐈 European wildcat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 0.9 million years ago.
In other languages
chat domestique (fr), katt (sv), kot domowy (pl), macska (hu), huiskat (nl), мачка (sr) … and 28 more languages
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