What affects us affects cats
This page looks briefly at conservation and appearance. This is a part of the Pictures of cats.org website where I like to present the best of Flickr photographs in large format. Caracal caracal – brief description This cat is a medium sized (perhaps medium/small – 13-18 kg (28-40 lbs)) wild cat that lives mainly on …
Ranthambore National Park – India Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, part of the Nilgiri district (India) showing the Bengal tiger habitat – Photo by tdietmut Pench National Reserve, India, Photo Ben Robinson (Flickr) Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India – Photo by Avinash Menon (Flickr) This article on the Bengal tiger habitat looks at where it is …
China – Tiger Farms In truth, the Bengal tiger population is not clearly known. Today, December 2018, I have reviewed the Bengal tiger population and I note that Wikipedia states an estimate of 2500 and National Geographic presents a figure of 4000 (which is clearly wrong). It’s a difficult position to be in because …
The list of big cat man-eaters show that they lived at a time when there were more big cats; thrust together as they were with people. Almost all took place in India and Bangladesh (Sunderbans). And almost all were the result of a big cat being disabled in some way and therefore unable to …
Photos from top left clockwise: Lion, tiger, leopard and jaguar. Photos by: Kjunstorm, Brian McKay, William Warby and Susan Shepard – all Flickr photographers and reproduced under creative commons licenses. Big cat toys should be toys that are based on the big four wild cats: tiger, lion, leopard and jaguar. Although I sense that …
by Anna (Northern California) About ten years ago, I was on a bike ride with my father and sisters and saw the strangest feline. We were riding through Bidwell Park in Chico, CA, which is a large, natural city park. We were somewhat between the Upper (most wild) and Lower (more urban) portions and …
Black-footed cat. Photo by ‘guppiecat’. Overview The name of this diminutive cat, the smallest African cat species, is slightly misleading as the paw pads and undersides of the feet are black but nothing else. Attempts to rename the cat failed. This secretive wild cat is found in the south west corner of the African …
Asian leopard cat – Photo copyright F. Spangenberg This article is split into several sections for technical reasons with links at the base of each section to the next. Overview The “leopard cat” as it is more commonly called is one of the most commonly found wild cat species. It is an Asian wild …
