Wild Cats Listed By Size

Rank Common name Scientific name Image Weight range kg.

Wild cats listed by size. Its coat is typically golden-red but a wide range of other color varieties are known. It is about the size of a domestic cat with thicker and longer fur. Small Cats 19 Species Three subspecies of Felis silvestris are shown counting as one species.

The Fishing Cat is a good example of this with females being 6-7 kg 14 lbs and males being 11-12 kg 26 lbs. A Wild Caracal Tehran Times. The Sand Cat Felis margarita lives in the deserts of Africa the Arabian Peninsula and western Asia.

Adult males can grow to around 80 centimetres 25ft in length with a shoulder height of between 40 and 50 centimetres. Bobcats are sometimes referred to as wildcats and are about twice the size of the average house cat. Their ears paws and long legs are quite similar to those found to be characteristic of the Canadian lynx.

Since 2016 its global wild population is listed as Near Threatened as the Rusty Spotted Cats are affected. The javan leopard panthera pardus melas and the arabian leopard panthera pardus nimr are both critically endangered with. Of the worlds total species of wild cats over 80 are small wild cats.

These are medium-sized stocky cats with a body length of about 74 centimetres and are easily identified by their sandy fur distinctive black stripes on the forehead and large ear tufts. How many species of big cats are there. Unfortunately amur leopards are one of the worlds most endangered big cats.

But somethe lion tiger leopard snow leopard clouded leopard jaguar lynx and cheetahare big. Caracals Caracal caracal are a wild cat species found in Africa the Middle East and central Asia in a range of habitats from semi-desert to open savannah. The Rusty-spotted Cat rivals and may exceed the South African Black footed cat Felis nigripes as the worlds smallest wild cat.