What wild cats are in Texas?
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 … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Wild Cat Distribution
The wild cat species who failed to become the domestic cat
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 … Continue reading →
Oncilla mates with Geoffroy’s cat and mated with the pampas cat
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 … Continue reading →
Snow Leopard Range
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 … Continue reading →
Serval Range
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 … Continue reading →
Rusty-spotted Cat Range
The range (distribution) of this very small wild cat is mapped out below. This is an emebedded map. The original is a Google “My Maps”, which I have left open to the public. It is also open to collaboration by … Continue reading →
Puma Cat Range
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 … Continue reading →
Fishing Cat Range
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 … Continue reading →
Clouded Leopard Range
2009: The Clouded Leopard range (geographic distribution) is presented in an embedded customised Google map. Note: the ranges for both Neofelis nebulosa (purple) and the recently classified Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi – blue) are shown. I would like people … Continue reading →
Black-footed Cat Range
The black-footed cat range (at 2009) is shown in an embedded map below. This small format website cannot show it all at once. However, it can be moved around in the window by holding down left click and moving the … Continue reading →