What affects us affects cats
This infographic lists the wild cat species on the African and South American continents and in Southeast Asia. Remarkably there are a similar number of species in each region. The weight ranges are also listed per species. All of them are endangered to varying degrees through human activities of various kinds. Conservation is the …
Well, it is a brilliant bit of photo-editing but that’s all it is. There are some very clever photo-editors nowadays. This looks like a photo of one of the small wild cat species such as the leopard cat or even the rusty-spotted cat which has been extensively photo-edited in great detail to dramatically alter …
Here are 17 facts about the small cats of the Americas. Although each “fact” is more a combination of facts on a particular topic. I hope you find the page useful. The overriding message regarding these precious animals is that they need to be protected in a world that is becoming more and more …
Here is a list of SMALL WILD CATS categorised into the regions where they are found. There are articles on all these wild cat species on this site. Please search for them using the custom search tool at the base of the page. Note: the serval, bobcat, lynx and perhaps the caracal are regarded …
The experts say that this is a new species of small wild cat living in the Asco Valley, Corsica but the animal behaves like a domestic cat (if not tranquillised) and looks like a hybridised European wildcat.
In general wild cats do not eat fruit as they are well-known carnivores. Although some wild cats do occasionally eat fruit. Many more wild cat species eat plant material. Fruit was found in the stomach of an Africa-Asian wildcat in Botswana. In Belize a study of 47 jaguarundi found that in ten percent of …
Some wild cats eat fish. For some species, fish are part of their diet because they like to live near water. For example, a small but powerful wild cat which eats fish is the fishing cat. This cat is an excellent swimmer (in fact all wild cats are at least capable swimmers). It has …
The DNA of all domestic cats has no trace of any wild cat species other than the African wildcat (also Near Eastern wildcat and Arabian wildcat – felis silvestris lybica). However, 10,000 years ago, there were a number of other suitable wild cat candidates who could have become the ancestor of the modern-day domestic …
