What affects us affects cats
The small wild cats live in a very wide range of landscapes (habitats). They live in deserts in the case of one small wild cat, the sand cat, and they live in trees in forests such as the margay. We will find them in tropical forests, grasslands (Argentina and Brazil) and in arboreal forests …
The unequivocal answer to the question in the title is NO. It’s interesting that the domestic cat has evolved through 10,000 years of domestication to become social but their wild cat ancestor isn’t and the same applies across all the small wild cat species. “As far as is known, the social system of all …
I think I’d better start this discussion by clarifying what a ‘cat species’ is. There are around 37 cat species. The number depends on how you classify them (taxonomy) and there is still some discussion on that topic. All bar one are wild cats. One of the species or subspecies is the domestic cat …
It is legal to purchase and own a caracal in Arizona, provided that the owner has a license and is responsible for the animal’s care and feeding. Other states where caracals are legal as exotic pets include Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Texas. It …
If you are up to scratch on your wild cat species, you might have heard of this trio. Two are small, about the size of a domestic cat, while the third is medium-sized. The video comes from San Diego Zoo. The lady who provides the voice-over has, I think, made quite a nice selection …
What the question in the title is asking is whether jaguarundis live IN THE WILD in the United States and the answer to that more precise question is officially NO. I say officially because sometimes we see reports of sightings of this small wild cat in America. I’ve seen reports of sighting in Florida …
The important news about this rare wild cat species is that its habitat has been and continues to be systematically destroyed by human exploitation to make a range of products (see map below). Around 20 years ago in 2002, Fiona Sunquist (WIld Cats of the World) described this cat as “the world’s least known …
I don’t need to add many words here as the infographic says all that I’d like to say about this very popular medium-sized wild cat species. In America there is considerable interest in the caracal as a pet. They are attractive. For the medium-sized wild cats the caracal and serval are the two most …
