A Michael Broad Blog
I Need Bobcat Scent and Sounds! by Pat (Central Ca) Bobcat – photo by Beth Sargent (Away) – Flickr) I live in a small town in central ca. We are being overrun and destroyed by an influx of herons, egrets and the like. All beautiful birds, of course, except that they like to live …
by Michael (London, UK) 13th Feb 2010: This brief post contains a fascinating piece of video that is the first to be made public. There are plenty of still photographs of clouded leopards in zoos and the very occasional camera trap still image but it is very rare indeed to film a clouded leopard …
by Michael (London, UK) The Florida bobcat (Lynx rufus floridanus) doesn’t exist. That is what the major authorities on the world’s wild cats say. I am referring to: Wild Cats Of The World (Sunquists) IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ (Red List) Both of these sources make no mention of the Florida bobcat. The …
Felis silvestris Threat to Wildlife Species Deliberate wild cat, felis silvestris, hybridisation was restricted to the Asian Leopard cat but a far wider variety of wild species are now being used. Is this a good thing for various species of wild cat? Breeders argue that developing hybrids of this type (i.e. wild+domestic) is good …
The black-footed cat is Africa’s smallest cat. An adult weighs about 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs or about half the weight of the average domestic cat). It is one of the world’s smallest cat species (the rusty-spotted cat is probably smaller). At first appearance this diminutive cat looks like a slightly exotic domestic tabby cat. …
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 …
August 2010: The distribution or range of the Wildcat is set out below. Please note: (1) the wildcat is a specific species of wild cat (2) ranges of wildcats are not precise even for an expert (3) the classification of the wildcats into 5 subspecies is still debated. This customised map is exclusive to …
