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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Cat

Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758

Kot domowy (Felis catus, również Felis silvestris catus) – udomowiony gatunek ssaka z rzędu drapieżnych z rodziny kotowatych. Koty zostały udomowione około 9500 lat temu i są obecnie najpopularniejszymi zwierzętami domowymi na świecie. Gatunek ten prawdopodobnie pochodzi od kota nubijskiego, przy czym w Europie krzyżował się ze żbikiem. Przez IUCN/SSC jest uznawany za gatunek inwazyjny na wielu obszarach.

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
AnAge
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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
AnAge
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data quality: questionable

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

Gestation
65 days
AnAge
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data quality: questionable

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

Litter size
about 4
AnAge
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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.

Where it sits

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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More about the Cat

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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