Ocelot (scientific name: Leopardus pardalis) is also known as Ocelot in English. There are 10 subspecies.Ocelots are mostly active at night and are territorial. Their hunting methods are similar to those of most cats. They are also good at swimming and climbing trees. However, their climbing skills...
Tree shrews are highly adaptable and are distributed from low altitude areas close to sea level to plateaus at an altitude of about 3,000 meters. They live in a variety of habitats such as deciduous forests, evergreen broad-leaved forests, tropical rainforests and limestone, and can also use seconda...
Raccoon, Procyon lotor (Linnaeus 1758), is a species of animal in the genus Procyon, family Procyonidae, order Carnivora, class Mammalia, native to North America, and now a species of least concern. Because it often preys on fish by the river and washes its food in the water, it is named raccoon.Rac...
The Oncilla (scientific name: Leopardus tigrinus) has three subspecies. It is one of the smallest wild cats in South America and the smallest in the genus Oncilla. It is very similar to the Oncilla in all other aspects. The all-black Oncilla accounts for about 1/5 of the total number.The tabby cat i...
The South American tiger cat (scientific name: Oncifelis guigna) is also known as Kodkod in English. It is the smallest cat in America and has two subspecies.The South American tiger cat is mainly single and territorial. Its hunting style is similar to that of most cats. It is good at climbing and i...
Geoffroy's Cat (scientific name: Leopardus geoffroyi) is called Geoffroy's Cat in foreign language. There are 5 subspecies.Geoffroy's Cat is a solitary and secretive nocturnal walker, and it will come out at dawn and dusk. It is a typical arboreal animal, and often looks for food on the...
The taxonomic status of the Ladakh pika is relatively stable. However, due to the small number of specimens, the research is not in-depth, and the ecological research is almost blank. Therefore, it is a species that is little known. From the distribution habitat, its habitat is a hilly plateau surfa...
Pampas Cat (scientific name: Leopardus colocolo) is also known as Pampas Cat, with 8 subspecies.Pampas Cat is mainly active at night, is an expert climber, very ferocious, and very agile. It mainly preys on small mammals, mainly rodents and guinea pigs, but also catches ground-dwelling birds and eve...
The slender-waisted cat (scientific name: Herpailurus yaguarondi) is also known as Jaguarundi and Eyra Cat in foreign languages. There is only one species in this genus, namely the slender-waisted cat. It is a medium-sized wild cat. In some Spanish-speaking countries, the slender-waisted cat is also...
Puma (scientific name: Puma concolor) is also known as Puma or Mountain Lion in foreign languages. It is an animal of the class Mammalia, family Felidae, and genus Cat. Based on the classical genetic analysis by Culver et al., 32 subspecies have been identified and described. In 2000, it was suggest...
African Caracal (scientific name: Caracal aurata, synonymous scientific name Profelis aurata) is called African Golden Cat in foreign language. It is a medium-sized wild cat with 2 subspecies.In Africa, African Caracal was once named African Golden Cat. They are considered "sons of leopards&quo...
Borneo Golden Cat (scientific name: Catopuma badia) is also known as Borneo Bay Cat in foreign languages. It has no subspecies.In 2006, Johnson and Eizirik et al. studied the Bornean golden cat together with the Asian golden cat and clouded cat of the same genus, and determined that the Bornean gold...
The Iriomote cat, scientific name Felis iriomotensis (P.b.iriomotensis), is a subspecies endemic to Okinawa, Japan. In the local dialect, the Iriomote cat is called "Yamamaya" (cat in the mountains), "Pingumaaya" (cat that escaped) and "Yamapicalaya", which shows that t...
Flat-headed Cat (scientific name: Prionailurus planiceps), also known as Flat-headed Cat, or simply Flat-headed Cat, is a small wild cat with no subspecies.Flat-headed ocelots appear at dusk and dawn, and hunt at night or dawn. They mainly prey on frogs, fish and crustaceans, and also catch rats and...
Rusty-spotted cat (scientific name: Prionailurus rubiginosus), also known as Rusty-spotted Cat, or simply Rusty-spotted cat, is a very small wild cat with two subspecies.Rusty-spotted cats are small, agile, and active. They are nocturnal animals. They mostly sleep in their dens during the day and co...
The Cymric cat is also called the long-haired Manx cat. It is a long-haired variant of the Manx cat. Like the Manx cat, it is tailless. It is a long-haired cat without a tail. The Cymric cat is not from Wales, nor is it from the UK like the Manx cat. It was first bred in Canada in 1960, and a short-...
The Ankara cat, also known as the Turkish Angora cat, is one of the oldest long-haired cat breeds and was named after the capital of Turkey. Ankara's old name - Angola. Its origin dates back to the 16th century, making it the oldest long-haired cat breed. Since its introduction to Europe, its no...
The Himalayan cat is named because it looks very similar to the rabbit with this name, and has nothing to do with the Himalayas. The breeding of Himalayan cats can be traced back to 1924, when a Swedish geneticist crossed Siamese cats, Burmese cats and Persian cats, but did not get obvious results....
The Oriental Longhair is a new breed obtained by crossing the Oriental Shorthair and the Balinese (semi-longhaired Siamese cat). TECA announced the standard of this breed in 1998. This breed is still rare in Europe.Oriental longhair cats are very lively, energetic, playful, strong-willed, and more d...
Balinese cats are produced by natural mutation or hidden genetic traits of Siamese cats, so they were originally called long-haired Siamese cats. Balinese cats originated in the United States. They are long-haired mutants found in the offspring of Siamese cats raised by Mrs. Beren Smith in New York...