How do you pronounce ‘margay’?
Please click on the audio file below to hear how you pronounce ‘margay’. Just add an ‘s’ to make it plural! It is exactly as expected. It may surprise you as to why I did this but it is a … Continue reading →
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America: tame wild cats exhibited at cat shows 1895-1903
Miss Frances Simpson was one of three major personalities in the early years of the cat fancy in England. She wrote a book called The Book of the Cat which was published in 1903. In that book she refers to … Continue reading →
What does the margay eat?
The margay is a small wild cat species in between the size of an ocelot and an oncilla. They are fabulous tree climbers with double jointed ankles which allow them to behave like monkeys when climbing. You can read about … Continue reading →
Where are margays found?
At 2019: The countries where margays are found are listed below: Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador El Salvador French Guiana Guatemala Guyana Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela Boliva The states from Brazil to … Continue reading →
Domestic cats can’t go into reverse which is why they struggle to get down trees
Cats, like humans, don’t naturally go into reverse. They don’t like walking backwards. They may do so for a short distance to avoid something, a hostile object or creature, but beyond that they aren’t very good at it. We know … Continue reading →
Which cat is the best climber?
I have decided that the margay is the best climber. This is quite a difficult question because all cats are good to excellent climbers. Of the big cats perhaps the leopard is the strongest climber but the tiger climbs beautifully … Continue reading →
How many margays are left in the wild?
The very best sources of information about this cat tells me that no one knows how many margays are left in the wild. That might sound bizarre but it is true. We do know that in the areas where they … Continue reading →
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 →
What is a cat’s tail for?
Although: it is used for ‘normal movement’¹ and the tail reflects emotions through boy language, and provides signals to other cats, the tail is not an essential piece of anatomy for the domestic cat. You only have to ask people … Continue reading →
Margay Range
This page is about the Margay generally The distribution of the margay (Leopardus wiedii) is highlighted in the embedded range map below. However, this page deals with more than the range of this wild cat species. I had left the … Continue reading →