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African wildcats were first domesticated about 10,000 years ago in the Near East, and are the ancestors of the domestic cat (F. catus). Domestic cats and African wildcats remain closely related in the present day; interspecific hybrids between domestic cat and African wildcats are common, and occur where their ranges overlap.
Black-footed Cat – Felis nigripes. One of the smallest wild cats, the black-footed cat Inhabits the African countries of South Africa, Botswana and Nambia. Conservation Status: Vulnerable. Bobcat – Lynx rufus. The bobcat can be found in North America, from Canada to the northern part of Mexico.
Jungle Cat (Felis chaus) African Wildcat (Felis lybica) Sand Cat (Felis margarita) Black-footed Cat (Felis nigripes) Taxonomy Reference: Kitchener et al. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN / SSC Cat Specialist Group. See also Wild Cat Species of Africa with Subspecies.
African Cats. African Cats (known as Felines in France) is a 2011 nature documentary film about a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs trying to survive in the African savannah directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey. The film was released theatrically by Disneynature on Earth Day, April 22, 2011.
Jun 29, 2018 · Friday, 29 June 2018. When you think of Africa’s iconic big cats, three species immediately come to mind: the lion, leopard and cheetah. The lion ( Panthera leo) was once described in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755) as “the fiercest and most magnanimous of the four-footed beasts”.
May 1, 2024 · African golden cat. Image @ By John Gerrard Keulemans via Wikipedia Creative Commons. IUCN Status: Vulnerable. One of the rarest species of wild cats, and the rarest wild cat in Africa, the African Golden cat occurs in the rainforest of West and Central Africa. Its preference for the dense tropical forest habitat makes it particularly difficult ...
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