The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a wild cat endemic to the rainforests of West and Central Africa. It is threatened due to deforestation and...
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Golden cat may refer to: African golden cat, Caracal aurata, a wild cat distributed in the rain forests of West and Central Africa Asian golden cat, Catopuma...
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The Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) is a medium-sized wild cat native to the northeastern Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and China. It has...
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The African civet (Civettictis civetta) is a large viverrid native to sub-Saharan Africa, where it is considered common and widely distributed in woodlands...
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cat (F. catus). Domestic cats and African wildcats remain closely related in the present day; interspecific hybrids between domestic cat and African wildcats...
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Felidae (redirect from Cat Family)
predators ambushing or stalking their prey. Wild cats occur in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas. Some wild cat species are adapted to forest and savanna...
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raising their parents' younger pups. The African wolf was previously classified as an African variant of the golden jackal, though a series of analyses on...
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The cat (Felis catus), also referred to as the domestic cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family...
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Barbary lion (redirect from North African Lion)
wearing a lion suit. Wild cats in Africa: Cheetah African golden cat Caracal Serval African wildcat Sand cat Black-footed cat History of lions in Europe...
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a bay cat skin and skull collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1856 in Sarawak. This cat was first thought to be a kitten of an Asian golden cat. In 1932...
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Red List since 2015. The marbled cat is closely related to the Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) and the bay cat (C. badia), all of which diverged...
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medium-sized wild cat. Caracal may also refer to: Caracal (genus), a genus of cats comprising the caracal and the African golden cat Caracal (album), the...
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List of felids (section Bay cat lineage)
UK.2016-1.RLTS.T16218A97164299.en. "CatSG: African Golden Cat". International Union for Conservation of Nature Cat Specialist Group. Archived from the...
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The leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is a small wild cat native to continental South, Southeast, and East Asia. Since 2002 it has been listed as...
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The jungle cat (Felis chaus), also called reed cat and swamp cat, is a medium-sized cat native from the Eastern Mediterranean region and the Caucasus to...
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The sand cat (Felis margarita) is a small wild cat that inhabits sandy and stony deserts far from water sources. With its sandy to light grey fur, it...
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The Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul), also known as the manul, is a small wild cat with long and dense light grey fur, and rounded ears set low on the sides...
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caracal C. caracal. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that caracal, African golden cat (C. aurata) and serval (Leptailurus serval) are genetically closely...
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The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis) is a subspecies of the leopard cat that lives exclusively on the Japanese island of Iriomote....
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The black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), also called the small-spotted cat, is the smallest wild cat in Africa, having a head-and-body length of 35–52 cm...
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Civet (category Mammals of Africa)
family Viverridae. It is also used to refer to the African palm civet and the Malagasy civet. The African palm civet (Nandinia binotata) is genetically distinct...
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Caracal (redirect from African Lynx)
Results of a phylogenetic study indicates that the caracal and the African golden cat (Caracal aurata) diverged between 2.93 and 1.19 million years ago...
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Geoffroy's cat (Leopardus geoffroyi) is a small wild cat native to the southern and central regions of South America. It is around the size of a domestic cat. It...
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Lynx (redirect from Lynx (cat))
Iberian lynx, Eurasian lynx and the bobcat) within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx. The name originated in Middle English via Latin from the Greek...
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The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is the nominate subspecies of the leopard, native to many countries in Africa. It is widely distributed in...
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Ringtail (redirect from Ringtail cat)
species is known by a variety of names, such as ring-tailed cat, miner's cat, civet cat, and cacomistle (or cacomixtle), though the last of these can...
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The Pampas cat (Leopardus colocola) is a small wild cat native to South America. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List as habitat conversion...
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Serval (redirect from Serval cat)
and the 2010s show that the serval, along with the caracal and the African golden cat, forms one of the eight lineages of Felidae. According to a 2006 genetic...
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