Wild Cats of the WorldRanging from the largest - the Tiger to the smallest species - the Rusty-spotted Cat and Black-footed Cat, the world's wild cats are some of the most beautiful, ferocious and feared carnivores in the world. Wild Cats of the World provides a detailed account of each species of wild cat, examining their importance throughout history and the future of some of the most endangered breeds. Using stunning photography and magnificent colour plates by top wildlife artist Priscilla Barrett to depict each cat in detail, Wild Cats of the World examines the characteristics of all 38 species, as well as their history, distribution and current IUCN status. |
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Contents
| 6 | |
Chinese Mountain Cat | 18 |
Wildcat | 21 |
Blackfooted Cat | 29 |
Sand Cat | 34 |
Jungle Cat | 38 |
Pallass Cat | 42 |
Leopard Cat | 46 |
Colocolo | 117 |
Andean Cat | 122 |
Eurasian Lynx | 127 |
Iberian Lynx | 134 |
Bobcat | 140 |
Canada Lynx | 146 |
Jaguarundi | 152 |
Puma | 157 |
Flatheaded Cat | 51 |
Rustyspotted Cat | 54 |
Fishing Cat | 58 |
Marbled Cat | 62 |
Bay Cat | 65 |
Asiatic Golden Cat | 68 |
Serval | 72 |
Caracal | 79 |
African Golden Cat | 86 |
Geoffroys Cat | 91 |
Oncillas | 96 |
Margay | 100 |
Ocelot | 104 |
Guiņa | 112 |
Cheetah | 167 |
Snow Leopard | 177 |
Clouded Leopards | 183 |
Tiger | 190 |
Lion | 199 |
Leopard | 210 |
Jaguar | 219 |
Species overview | 228 |
Conserving wild cats | 232 |
| 235 | |
Conversion Table | 236 |
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Andean Cat Asia Asiatic Golden Cat average Black-footed Cat blotches Bobcats Brazil breeding camera-trap Canada Lynx captivity Caracal carnivores Cat’s cent central Cheetahs CITES Appendix Clouded Leopard Colocolo colour Critically Endangered cubs Deer dense diet disperse Distribution and habitat domestic cat Eurasian Lynx example Feeding ecology felid females forest genetic genus Geoffroy’s Cats grasslands Guiņa hare Head-body length home ranges hunting Iberian Lynx important prey India IUCN RED LIST Jaguars Jaguarundi Jungle Cat killed kittens Leopard Cat lineage Lions litters livestock mainly Margay months mortality Mountains National Park northern numbers occasionally occur Ocelot Oncilla overlap Pallas’s Cat Pantanal Panthera poorly known predators prey species Pumas radio-collared rarely recorded Reproduction and demography rodents Rusty-spotted Cat Sand Cat savanna season Serengeti Servals Similar species Snow Leopards Social and spatial southern spatial behaviour spots STATUS AND THREATS subspecies tail Taxonomy and phylogeny territorial Tigers typically ungulates vulnerable wild Wildcat woodlands
Bibliographic information
| Title | Wild Cats of the World |
| Author | Luke Hunter |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015 |
| ISBN | 1472922859, 9781472922854 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Animals / Big Cats Nature / Animals / Mammals Nature / Animals / Wildlife Photography / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals |
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