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Showing posts with label African wildcat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African wildcat. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 April 2023

Corsican wildcat (cat-fox or gatto-volpe) is a subspecies of the African or European wildcat

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Some speculative pundits described this wildcat as a 'cat-fox'. Remarkably some believed that it was a cat-fox hybrid. I think their...
Monday, 4 July 2022

Early "domestic cats" were actually tamed wildcats

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It is said, with confidence nowadays, that the first domestic cats on the planet existed about 9500 years ago. It all started in an area tha...
Monday, 24 January 2022

2 physical features differentiate the true African wildcat from the hybrid wildcat

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NEWS AND COMMENT-KAMBERG, KWAZULU-NATAL: Conservationists have taken charge of a purebred African wildcat which was trapped by farmers in th...
Friday, 20 August 2021

Domestic cats don't exist. Discuss.

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Jackson Galaxy doesn't believe that domestic cats truly exist and he's right. He says that the word "domestic" when applie...
Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Does your cat circle the food bowl as if scavenging from a dead animal?

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Perhaps my cat is unusual but I don't think he is. There is one aspect of him which is a little unusual in that he was raised for the fi...
Saturday, 13 March 2021

First domestic cats in Europe

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A study published on July 28th 2020: Ancestors of domestic cats in Neolithic Central Europe: Isotopic evidence of a synanthropic diet , stat...
Saturday, 6 March 2021

Did cats domesticate themselves?

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It claimed that 'cats domesticated themselves'. But what does it mean? Firstly the statement should be amended to read, 'wildcat...
Sunday, 13 September 2020

Wildcat facts in brief

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The African wildcat should probably be referred to as the African-Asian wildcat  because they are part of the same species. I don't want...
Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Why are domestic cats so small?

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Because they are descended from the North African wildcat, a cat of similar proportions and appearance even after about 10,000 years of dome...
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Monday, 26 February 2018

Is the African Wild Cat Endangered?

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According to the 'experts', the African wildcat is not endangered. The conservation status of this small wild cat species is "L...
Thursday, 18 June 2015

Five Female Wildcats Are the Ancestors of All Today's Domestic and Feral Cats

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It seems extraordinary but based upon DNA research five female North African wildcats ( felis silvestris lybica ) are the ancestors of the...
Saturday, 12 July 2014

When is a Wildcat a Wild Cat?

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We know that we have to protect and conserve endangered species and many of the wild cat species are endangered.  One of them is the Scottis...
Monday, 16 June 2014

Kenyan Government Protects Poachers: What Happens to the Wild Cats?

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Elephant Serengeti. Photo: Feans Richard Leakey, one of the world's best known conservationists tells us that the Kenyan government ...
Monday, 21 May 2012

Food Selection in Domestic Cats

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There is no question that cats have food preferences. Some cats are finickity eaters. For me, one of the most important factors in feeding c...
Friday, 11 November 2011

African Wild Cat Picture

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This is a really nice African wildcat picture. The author is an amateur photographer who publishes his work on Flickr, a large photo hosting...
Saturday, 22 October 2011

African wild cat hybrid

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African wildcat photo by lildude (Flickr) It appears that the African wild cat hybrid is commonplace in Africa. No one, as far as I a...