Cats that live in the snow

Snow leopard Central Karakoram NP Pakistan

I am referring to wild cat species and secondly there is no cat species which only lives in the snow all the time. I guess that is common sense but the wild cat species listed, of which there are 12, spend at least part of their time in a snowy landscape more so than …

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The adorable and cute Pallas’s cat is quite friendly

Cute Pallas's cat in rucksack

It is not often that you can describe a wild cat, albeit a small one, as “quite friendly” as Mel and Fiona Sunquist did in their excellent book1. And yet a well-known British biologist, R.I. Pocock described captive Pallas’s cats (alternative names ‘manul’ or ‘Pallas cat’) as follows: The manul is markedly different in …

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