Chinese Alpine Steppe Cat

Chinese mountain cat is a subspecies and is not the ancestor of domestic cats in China

July 22, 2021 by Michael Broad

I am picking up on a study that I have written about before which genetically analysed the Chinese mountain cat to confirm (1) that it is a subspecies of wildcat and not species in its own right and (2) that it was not domesticated at the time the African wildcat was domesticated about 10,000 …

Picture of female Chinese mountain cat and her kittens in the wild

May 31, 2023August 9, 2020 by Michael Broad

This picture of a female Chinese mountain cat and her kittens has just emerged although the date on the camera trap photograph tells me that it was taken on 19 September 2018 at 5:51 PM in the afternoon. It seems that she has made a den in the side of a hill. It seems …