A Michael Broad Blog
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 bobcat and the mountain lion a.k.a. the puma are definitely in Texas. The ocelot is said by some to be in Texas. You will see a range of opinions on whether the ocelot is in Texas or whether it has become extinct in that state. If it does exist in Texas, it is …
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 …
The oncilla in the south of Brazil currently mates with Geoffroy’s cat (L. geoffroyi) creating a hybrid, while the oncilla in the northeast of Brazil in ancient times mated with the pampas cat (L. colocolo)¹. Currently there is a relatively small overlap in the distributions of the oncilla and Geoffroy’s cat. The southern oncillas don’t mix …
The snow leopard range indicated on the map below is a little different from the others on this site as the range is: very fragmented in places and large parts of the range have very irregular boundaries For these reasons the range edging is soft and thick and the fragmented areas are indicated by …
August 2010: The serval lives in Africa. The range is marked in red on the map below. As the map shows, it is widely distributed south of the Sahara desert. North of the Sahara, recent records indicate that they may inhabit Morocco2. The Moroccan range is marked on the map. It is believed extinct in …
The Puma cat range is shown below in purple. The map is based on a Google My Maps map, carefully prepared by me from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ map. The purpose of preparing this map is to allow people “on the ground” who have direct experience of the whereabouts of the …
The range of the Asian Fishing cat is shown in the customised, embedded Google map below. Please click on the following link (which opens in a new window) to go to the original map, which can be refined by anyone willing and able. The video in this section shows how to use Google My …
