The long-range cat sounds (vocalisations) that we know well are the roars of the roaring big cats: lion, tiger, jaguar and leopard. I’ll start with these iconic wild cat species. Tiger This is what I wrote years ago about the … please continue reading
African Golden Cat Photo: © Gary P. Aronsen Overview The African golden cat is a small/medium sized wild cat of a variety of colors that lives in the band of forests of equatorial Africa that extend from the west coast … please continue reading
How many stripes do tigers have? Around 100 I’d say as it is possible to do the obvious: count them from a photograph. Of course it is not a very precise process as a tiger’s stripes are irregular in shape … please continue reading
Bornean Bay Cat – Photograph copyright Jim Sanderson, Ph.D – Please respect copyright. Below is a cleaned up and labelled version (this page has been upgraded on 4th July 2018): Introduction The “bay cat” is the world’s least know cat … please continue reading
I bumped into this picture of a white serval on Pinterest and was immediately aware that the cat was a serval and being white he had to be extremely rare as this coat type is not mentioned in the best … please continue reading
No, snow leopards do not kill humans. In fact they rarely attack humans in the wild. There are only a few records of snow leopards attacking people and no records of this cat killing humans. “They readily relinquish kills of … please continue reading
The record adult male bobcat weighed 26.8 kilograms which is 59.1 pounds. The source for this information is The bobcat of North America by SP Young. please continue reading
Sport hunters, who obviously have had first-hand experiences in chasing pumas, say that this athletic wild cat has an amazing ability to leap 20 feet straight up a cliff and when chased by dogs the puma can make downhill leaps … please continue reading
Gestation times for cats varies among the species and is longer for the larger cats for the simple reason that they are larger. please continue reading
Click on the audio player to hear me pronouncing Acinonyx jubatus. By convention it is written in italics with the first word capitalized and the second word not capitalized. This is the scientific name in Latin of the cheetah. The … please continue reading
