Small Wild Cats List

Wild Cat Common Name Wild Cat Species Name Wild Cat Continent Range.

Small wild cats list. Felidae is the scientific name of the biological family whose most familiar member is the domestic cat. African golden cat Profelis aurata Asian golden cat Catopuma temminckil Asian leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis Black footed cat Felis nigripes Borneo bay cat Pardofelis badia Borneo clouded leopard Borneocat Neofelis diardi. Mostly only in northern states along the Canadian border or in mountainous regions.

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. The former group includes the jaguar and the cougar while the latter includes the ocelot the Canadian lynx the bobcat and the jaguarundi.

Jungle cats are solitary in nature. Several types of wild cat are found in canada. Iriomote Cat Marbled Cat Margay Ocelot Oncilla Little Spotted Cat Pallass Cat.

Pallas cat is a small wild cat that lives in the grasslands and steppes of Central Asia. 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. Female Toyger cats weigh between 7 and 10 pounds and the males are 10-15 pounds.

They occur only in central and southern Chile with small population in Argentina. Different types of research studies have also proved this fact that these cats are smallest wild cats in the world. The same is true for the 3 cat breeds listed below.

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. KodKod cat has the smallest range among wild cats in the Americas. Its range is restricted to parts of southern Chile and Argentina.