Asian Wild Cats List

Wild cats mostly live in exotic places most of us will never visit, but several species survive, often covertly, within or around villages and cities in many parts of the world (famous cougar that was holed up under l.a house returns to the wild).

Asian wild cats list. The 6 cats of the leopard cat lineage. Most small wild cats are the size of a domesticated 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)

They hunt rodents and birds. Different types of research studies have shown this fact that the bay cats are much smaller than the asian golden cats. Shoulder height is generally 20 to 45 cm, and body mass is usually between 4 and 17 lb.

The status least concern in the iucn red list is attributed to the wildcat species complex. There is no information on current status. It can be found in forest areas throughout indonesia, philippines, borneo, malaysia, thailand, myanmar, laos, cambodia, china and taiwan.

Borneo bay cat (catopuma badia) bay cat. This list is about the world's largest continent. The asian or asiatic golden cat lives in forests of southeast asia.

Cat species evolved into a distinct family (felidae) roughly 25 million. The table is grouped by continent to start. It is also known as the asian steppe wildcat and indian desert cat.

The wildcat is a species complex comprising two small wild cat species, the european wildcat (felis silvestris) and the african wildcat (f. Image @ jim sanderson via wikipedia creative commons. Unfortunately, their populations are classified as near threatened or vulnerable.