RELATED: Information about the hybridisation of the Scottish wildcat There was a story on the Internet that the last wildcat in England was shot in 1835. I repeated it on this website. But the information seems very doubtful. There appears to be no hard evidence of it. I have conducted quite a thorough search …
We know that the Scottish wildcat is either extinct in the wild in Scotland or very nearly so because of long-term hybridisation with domestic and feral cats. These two species i.e. the wildcat and the domestic cat readily mate. It is the wildcat’s undoing in Europe and in Africa. And today, we are told …
by Michael (London, UK) European wildcat – photo by Joachim S. Müller (Flickr) Here are some bulleted notes on the threats and conservation of the wild cat species known as the “wildcat”. This is a small wildcat that looks like a domestic cat and which is the wildcat ancestor of the domestic cat. Please …
