There are 2 wild cat species that I know of which can walk underneath horizontal branches as if they were a sloth. The species are: RELATED: You can tell the difference between tree and ground dwelling cats from their morphology Here is a description of the fabulously beautiful (too beautiful as they have been …
Margays at least tend to be nocturnal. Other websites say that they are nocturnal. My reference book on the topic1 tells me that margays in Belize are strictly nocturnal as per radio tracking by a scientist in 1995. The study found that the margay was most active between 1 AM and 5 AM in …
This page on margay cats is a continuation from the major page on this cat, which is here: Margay Range. I’d recommend visiting that page too. The linked page above also discusses appearance and threats. The most important aspect of the wild cats is the continual impact human activity has on their range (distribution). …
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 Google search term which means someone is asking. The name of this cat is …
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 the first American cat show held in the Madison Square Garden, New York, on …
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 the species in straightforward terms on a page that I wrote some time ago. …
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 Venezuela are plurinational. Bolivia is a republic. Presence Uncertain in the United States. Below …
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 that cat’s claws point backwards. They point towards the rear of the animal when …
