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Prionailurus bengalensis 544774621🐈

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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Leopard cat

Prionailurus bengalensis (Kerr, 1792)

ベンガルヤマネコ(学名:Prionailurus bengalensis)は、哺乳綱食肉目ネコ科ベンガルヤマネコ属に分類される食肉類。

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Also called
Prionailurus bengalensis
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
4.15 kg
Body length
0.78 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Everything we know about the Leopard cat

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

Body mass
4.15 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.78 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
30 g
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Maximum lifespan
17 years
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  • 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
6.44 years
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Age at maturity
2.3 years
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Gestation
66 days
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  • 62 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 3
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
1.87 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
4.2 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 Leopard cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🐈 Fishing cat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.0 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals80%
reptiles, fish and amphibians15%
fish5%
In other languages
石虎 (zh), Prionailurus bengalensis (de), Prionailurus bengalensis (es), chat-léopard (fr), Prionailurus bengalensis (it), Kotek bengalski (pl) … and 28 more languages
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