Small Wild Cats List

Another example is the jaguar.

Small wild cats list. They are found in the moist temperate forests of the Andean and Coastal ranges. The bottom three cats are the smallest with probably the Rusty-spotted cat pictured above the smallest of all wild cat species but there is not a lot of research so the figures for the rarer wild cats are open to amendment. The black footed cat is one of the worlds smallest wild cat species and the smallest found in Africa.

Geoffroys cats are one of the smallest wild cat species on earth. Therefore it is often erroneously assumed that all exotic or non-domesticated cats in captivity pose the same threat to the populace as would a lion or leopard. Similar in appearance to a bobcat.

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. Several types of wild cat are found in canada. Here is a list of the wild cats of North America.

Canadian Lynx Lynx canadensis Looks like. The cheetah and the puma though close in size to the big cats are grouped with the small cats because they cannot roar. The six small wild cats in this lineage are all closely related and distributed in africa and eurasia.

A rare small wild species that are outnumbered by other wild cats on its native island of Borneo which is divided into Malaysia Brunei and IndonesiaWith the remains of one first mistaken for those of an Asian golden cat but actually much smaller in size it was determined that both had a common ancestor that diverged for 49 to 53 million years way before. Felidae is the scientific name of the biological family whose most familiar member is the domestic cat. The black-footed cats are also considered as rare wild cat species.

In fact this species only has a size of a domestic cat. Lynx canadensis is one of the small wild cats living in North America. Pallas cat is a small wild cat that lives in the grasslands and steppes of Central Asia.