A Michael Broad Blog
It probably goes without saying that both the wild ancestor of our domestic cats and our human ancestors come from the same area on the planet which means that we are programmed to prefer the same ambient temperature range. Research indicates that the human’s preferred thermostat setting at home is between about 17°C to …
If you gave someone an African wildcat as a pet, how would they know it wasn’t a regular house cat? By far the greatest difference between these two cats under the circumstances would be their behavior. Although you can see that they are different in appearance – I’ve compared a tabby cat with an …
The population trend for wildcats in general is downwards. That applies to the African wildcat – the wild ancestor to the domestic cat and an important species for that reason. Incidentally, there are two subspecies of African wildcat: the African wildcat, F. s. lybica, or North African wildcat and the southern African wildcat, F.s. cafra. …
