Different Types Of Cats In The Wild

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Different types of cats in the wild. Cat pedigrees are divided into two major categories long-haired cats and short-haired cats. March 18 2014 by lyly. Iriomote Cat Marbled Cat Margay Ocelot Oncilla Little Spotted Cat Pallass Cat.

So here is the list of the ten wild cats of Africa categorised by big cats medium cats and small cats. African Golden Cat Andean Mountain Cat Asian Golden Cat Bornean Bay Cat Black-footed Cat Bobcat Canada Lynx Caracal Chinese Desert Cat Eurasian Lynx Fishing Cat Flat-headed Cat Geoffroys Cat Iberian Lynx Jaguarundi Jungle Cat Kodkod Guina Leopard Cat subspecies. Differences aside genome sequencing reveals that tigers and housecats share around 95 percent of the same DNA.

The ones kept as pets today started showing up in artwork thousands of years ago. For example the ancient Egyptians believed cats were the sacred or special animal of a goddess named Bast. Hearing and smell is less well developed than in the dog family.

There are so many different types of spaniels heres a collection some. Types Of Cats With Pictures. Like most wild cats the tiger is an ambush hunter.

Cheetahs are animals of the grassy plains and are now vary rare. Tigers are closely related to other big cats so it goes without saying that there are plenty of ways in which the housecat is similar to its wild cousins. More on Wild Cats.

Additionally all cats are carnivores and excluding lions who hunt in groups are all solitary predators that stalk or ambush their prey. Leopards in their black form melanistic leopards. They hunt the smaller antelopes and the young of some larger.