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The Sunshine State cat

Florida is the very rare Florida panther. Scientists debate whether the panther is a subspecies of the cougar (see 437) or a separate speci...

striped , and though we assume they are all orangey in color, their color varies widely depending on location. Tigers in Russia and northern...

Hunters would take them blindfolded to the hunting site and release them when the prey was sighted. Aside from the domestic cat and the car...

black , and so are the spots, so the panther gives the overall appearance of being jet black. In fact, you can see the spots clearly at cert...

lion is the only social cat, living in small groups called prides that are composed mostly of related females and one dominant male.

Persian lynx, is found over much of Asia and Africa, where it preys on gazelles, small deer and birds. No other cat quite resembles it, tha...

Japanese island of Iriomote. The small cat hunts by night, stalking birds and small mammals, and it also ventures to the water’s edge to ca...

sea level. High altitude means cold nights, so this grayish cat has dense shaggy fur. The tail’s wide stripes make it look like a raccoon’s...

four feet long, and their close relative the margay (Felis wiedi) is a sort of mini-ocelot, only about two feet long, tail included. In oth...

house cats before Columbus arrived, there is some evidence that they had tamed a native cat called the jaguarundi. This long-bodied brown ...

The answer is yes, but you probably would not like the results. This is especially true of cases where a European wildcat tom impregnated a ...

Felis silvestris lybica ranges over much of Africa but it has become rare. It is grayish-brown in color and has distinctive striping on the ...

Felis silvestris iberia, resembles the Scottish wildcat but its coat is darker. Like its Scottish cousin, it has a heavier build than most h...

pet cats, but, as you will see, their capacity for being tamed varies greatly. Worth noting: all the silvestris wildcats possess larger br...

animals go by “cat” names but aren’t related to cats at all. Skunks are sometimes called “polecats,” while in Europe the “polecat” is a cr...

island , and its isolation from other land masses has resulted in wildlife very unlike the other continents. You probably are aware that man...

purr ), while the Panthera cats do roar (but can’t purr). Needless to say, your pet belongs to the Felis genus. Aside from the roar-purr div...

Europe around 12 million years ago. This species was smaller than Pseudaelurus though still larger than today’s house cat. Scientists ass...

house cats, but in some way the ferocious saber-tooth cats are among the ancestors of today’s pets (or, at any rate, of cats in general). T...

Presumably the dinosaurs died out around 65 million years ago (give or take a year), and the age of the mammals began. The earliest mammals ...