There is a reference to a wild cat hybrid in Harrison Weir’s excellent book of 1889, Our Cats and all about them (note: the title is written exactly as per the original). I am told the book is copyright protected … Continue reading →
By Rudolph A. Furtado This is nature in the raw. A small wild cat is being attacked by macaque monkeys, crows and a dog who chased the cat up the tree. It all occurred in Shimla, India, which is a … Continue reading →
I suppose this is good news but it is based on bad news. The Iberian lynx lives in the south western half of Spain in fragmented habitat and in the east of Portugal. This cat’s last refuge is the Parque … Continue reading →
The bobcat is a species (type) of wild cat that is named after its short tail of about 14 centimeters in length – five and a half inches. It is a small to medium sized cat that weighs from a … Continue reading →
Geoffroy’s cat is a species of wild cat. “Species” means a sort or type of wild cat that is different from the others. The name can be tricky to write and say because it looks and sounds like “Geoffrey”, a … Continue reading →
This is a post about Sarah Menzies who went to Africa and felt like she received a big hug from nature. And, you know, I can definitely understand that even though I have not been to Africa. Sarah has her … Continue reading →
Although: it is used for ‘normal movement’ยน and the tail reflects emotions through boy language, and provides signals to other cats, the tail is not an essential piece of anatomy for the domestic cat. You only have to ask people … Continue reading →
This page is about the Margay generally The distribution of the margay (Leopardus wiedii) is highlighted in the embedded range map below. However, this page deals with more than the range of this wild cat species. I had left the … Continue reading →
The fishing cat was considered by early taxonomists to look like the Indian civet, a cat-like creature. For this reason the scientists named this cat, Prionailurus viverrinus, after the viverrid family of which the civet is a part. The fishing … Continue reading →
