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Felis chaus affinis (walk)🐈

Photo: Кирилл · CC BY 4.0

SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Jungle cat

Felis chaus Schreber, 1777

丛林猫（学名：Felis chaus）为猫科猫属的动物。分布于亚洲（中西部）以及中国大陆的西藏、云南等地，多见于沿河、环湖边的芦苇或灌丛、海岸边森林、或具有高草的树林、田野。不见于热带雨林中，可活动在接近海平面的低地，亦見於2500米高地。该物种的模式产地在高加索以北的捷列克河。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Photos
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Measurements
11
vs you
≈ 1/6th of your weight
Also called
Reed Cat, Swamp Cat
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
10 kg
Body length
0.73 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Jungle cat

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

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

Figures vary

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

Brain mass
41 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 20 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
5.21 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.0 years
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Gestation
62 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 60 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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  • 3AnAgeAnAge 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

Volume l
10 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 Jungle cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyFelidae
  6. ›genusFelis
  7. ›speciesFelis chaus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyFelidae
  4. genusFelis
All 14 branches ↓
  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 Jungle cat

Closest relative on this site
🐈 Black-footed cat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.1 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals80%
reptiles, fish and amphibians20%
In other languages
Rohrkatze (de), Felis chaus (es), Chaus (fr), 丛林猫 (zh), Kot błotny (pl), mocsári macska (hu) … and 28 more languages
More photos
Felis chaus affinis (walk)Photograph of a jungle catPhotograph of a jungle cat
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