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	Lioncrusher's Domain -- Wild Cat (Felis silvestris) facts and pictures
		The African wild cat: Though their color does tend to be lighter overall than the European wild cat, due to the fact that they inhabit less densely wooded areas, they have a wide diversity on coloration.
		Wild cats tend to be solitary, terrestrial, and nocturnal.
		The greatest threat to the wild cat is hybridization with domestic cats, loss of habitat, and hunting for their fur, as well as being hunted for killing domestic fowl.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=72 (621 words)

	Wild cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wild cats were common in the European Pleistocene era; when the ice vanished, they became adapted to a life in dense forests.
		The African wild cat is believed to be the ancestor of the domestic cat, since it is tamer than the European wild cats and active at night.
		The Asiatic wild cat, Asian steppe wild cat or Indian desert cat (Felis silvestris ornata) primarily inhabits the Rajasthan desert and in Rann of Kutch in India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wild_cat (789 words)

	African Wild Cat {Felis libyca}
		The African wild cat is sandy brown to yellow grey in colour, with fl stripes on the tail.
		Today's domestic cats are generally believed to be descendants of the African Wild Cat, which were tamed by the Egyptians over 4000 years ago to control rats and mice raiding their granaries.
		African wild cats are nocturnal in the warm weather and diurnal during very cold weather.
	www.sa-venues.com /wildlife/african-wild-cat.htm (552 words)

	Choosing a Cat Choosing a New Cat
		The African wild cat inhabited most of Asia and North Africa, and because the process of domestication of the cat occurred mainly in the Middle East, the African wild cat was almost certainly the principle ancestor of the modern domestic cat.
		Cat remains from Egypt around 2000BC could well be from a domestic variety and paintings and inscriptions from the same period portray cats in situations that suggest that they were domesticated.
		Cats are more likely to accept a kitten than another cat moving in on their territory because they consider it less of a threat.
	www.isabellevets.co.uk /new_cat/newcat.htm (3948 words)

	Predator Conservation Trust: African Wild Cat information
		The African Wild Cat is similar in appearance to the domestic tabby cat but is slightly larger, being around 90cm in length, 35cm high at the shoulder, and weighing between 4 and 5 Kg.
		Wild cats are mainly nocturnal and crepuscular (i.e.
		African Wild Cats are known to interbreed with domestic cats.
	www.predatorconservation.com /africanwildcat.htm (345 words)

	Cat Biology
		The African wild cat was willing to live close to humans and stay clam around us, as it was able to modify its behaviour via the biofeedback mechanism.
		When a female cat comes into season (usually towards spring, in the hours of daylight) they leave hormone-laden urine markings in their territory and also ‘call’ the male cat by emitting a unique and sonorous tone which is easily heard by nearby males.
		The oestrogen is released in the female’s urine, and it is this that attracts the male cats to the female.
	www.thedomesticcat.com /biology.htm (1843 words)

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		The African wild cats are distributed throughout the entire African continent (although absent from part of West Africa), and much of the Middle East.
		African wild cats are found in a wide variety of habitats in both open and wooded country, and sometimes in mountainous regions.
		The African wild cat is generally regarded at the ancestor of the domestic cat.
	home.globalcrossing.net /~brendel/awild.html (477 words)

	African Wild Cat
		Finding pure strains of the African Wildcat only in remote, protected areas, away from domestic cats.
		Today the African wildcat is often found near villages and farms, where it interbreeds with the domestic cats to produce fertil young.
		Sometimes being hard to distinguish between domestic and wild.
	www.irananimals.com /cat-pages/AFRICAN-WILD-CATS.htm (244 words)

	R-Zu-2-U - African Wild Cat
		The three wild cat (felis sylvestris, felis lybica, felis ornata) are found in Europe, Africa, Egypt, China.
		This cat is 19 to 30 inches long with a tail half as long as its body.
		This cat is an rapid runner and skilled climber.
	www.treasureranch.com /treasure/rzuinfofiles/afwldcat.html (540 words)

	Wikijunior Big Cats/Wildcat - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Wild cats are the ancestors of the domestic cats that live in our homes which still roam the wilds.
		The European Wild Cat lives in forests of Western, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Scotland and Turkey; it is not found in Scandinavia, Iceland, England, Wales, or Ireland.
		The African Wild Cat is found in deserts and savannahs of Africa and the Arabian peninsula.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Wikijunior_Big_Cats/Wildcat (364 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Small Cat
		San Diego Zoo: fishing cats in Tiger River; Siberian Pallas’s cats Otocolobus manul manul in Polar Bear Plunge; caracals and Siberian lynx Lynx lynx wrangeli in Cat Canyon; wild cats Felis silvestris and leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis euptilura on Elephant Mesa.
		Over a long period of time, these cats were bred among each other and became separate from the wild populations, and they also moved with humans to many parts of the world.
		Cats have a layer of tissue in their eyes called the tapetum lucidum, which bounces light back through the retina a second time and increases the amount of light the cat has to see by.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-smallcat.html (1736 words)

	African Wild Cat
		Slightly larger than a domestic cat, the African Wild Cat weighs 6 to 17 pounds with a head and body length of 19 to 29 inches and a tail of 8 to 13 inches.
		These cats are becoming increasingly rare in South Africa due to their ability to breed with domestic cats and from the associated diseases transmitted to these wild cats from their domestic cousins
		She heard sounds of quarrelling in the hut and saw the man in flight from a woman who was beating him with a stick for stirring porridge.
	www.moggies.co.uk /breeds/africacat.html (499 words)

	Natural History Museum: Cats! Wild to Mild: Wild Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		African wild cats are found in a wide range of habitats including desert, savannah, woodland, and forest.
		The African wild cat is a subspecies of the wild cat, Felis sylvestris, that occurs in the Middle east and throughout much of Africa.
		This subspecies of wild cat appears to be ancestral to all domestic cats.
	www.nhm.org /cats/encyclo/silvestr (191 words)

	Wild Cat
		Misc.: The African Wildcat is the ancestor of the Domestic cat.
		Principal Threats: The primary threat for this cat is the hybridization of the population with domestic cats.
		Because of the wide spread problem of feral domestic cats and the long period of time which they have been a problem, it is unsure whether or not there are any pure wildcats remaining at all.
	www.bigcatrescue.org /wild_cat.htm (686 words)

	African Wild Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The African Wild Cat lives throughout Africa, and the Middle East, except western Africa where there are rainforests.
		The African wild cat looks much like the European, except that their fur is shorter and their tail is longer.
		The African Wild Cat snack on rodents, insects, birds, and small mammals.
	home.att.net /~kittycatfurballs/africanwc.html (112 words)

	Domestic Cat
		The domestic cat lineage, which includes both African and European wild cats as well as domestic cats, is thought to have arisen 8 to 10 million years ago within the cat branch of the Carnivores.
		The closest genetic relative of modern domestic cats is the African wild cat (Felis sylvestris libyca).
		Feral cats are attracted to the zoo, where they can scrounge a few scraps both from food dishes in open exhibits and from humans in the various food courts.
	www.whozoo.org /mammals/Carnivores/smallcats/domestic.htm (574 words)

	Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure
		Domestic cats are thought to have descended from African Wild Cats.
		African wild cats were present in towns in the Middle East at least 7,000 years ago.
		Wild Cats have scent glands on their foreheads, around their mouths, and near the bases of their tails.
	www.rollinghillswildlife.com /animals/c/catwild (274 words)

	African Wild Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From these tamed animals, the domestic cat was bred, therefore the similarity between the two.
		Wild cats readily interbreed with domestic cats and there are few countries that have pure wild cats left.
		Namibia is lucky in that it does not have many domesticated cats and that helps boost the country's pure-blooded wild cat numbers.
	www.namibian.org /travel/wildlife/african_wild_cat.html (243 words)

	Cat facts and cat opinions by Precious The Cat.
		Among other tasks, cats can be taught to use a toilet, come, sit, beg, eat with their paws, heel, jump through a hoop, play a piano, play dead, roll over, open a door, hide food in boxes, shake, and fetch.
		White cats with only one blue eye are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue eye.
		A one year old cat is similar in age to an 18 year old human.
	www.cat-music.com (497 words)

	African Golden Cat,African Jungle Cats,African Golden Jungle Cat
		Although its name implies a golden coloured coat the golden cat is polymorphic - its base coat coloration varies extensively depending on its location -ranging from a golden/reddish brown to slate/silver grey.
		Habitat: The primary habitat of the golden cat appears to be the Tropical Rain Forest belt which traverses the African equator, however penetration into the adjoining tropical Dry Forests and Savannah scrub is also in evidence.
		IUCN status: The African golden cat has an IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) status of Insufficiently Known and due to its relatively restricted natural habitat must be considered at risk until more data is available as to its true population and distribution.
	www.indiantiger.org /wild-cats/african-golden-cat.html (532 words)

	African Wild Cat Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		African Wild Cats (Felis lybica) are small, fierce cats that live in forests, grasslands, and brush lands in Africa and the Middle East.
		African Wild Cats are generally nocturnal (most active at night) in warm weather but are diurnal (most active during the day) during very cold weather.
		These graceful cats are from 20 to 30 inches (50-75 cm) long (plus a tail that is half as long as the body).
	www.zoomschool.com /subjects/mammals/cats/wildcat/Wildcatprintout.shtml (216 words)

	SMALL WILD CAT SPECIES
		Most people are relatively familiar with the big cats of the world (lion, tiger, puma, leopard, snow leopard jaguar, cheetah, lynx), but there are a large number of small wild cats, closer in size to our domestic cats.
		The Domestic Cat, a subspecies of European Wild Cat, is found throughout the world due to human intervention and will interbreed with any of the F silvestris subspecies, resulting in mongrel populations.
		A number of "Indian Cats" (possibly hybrids between Indian Wild Cats and domestic cats) were imported into Britain in the late 1800s and resembled the Abyssinian Cat with ticked body and barring on legs and tail.
	www.messybeast.com /small-wildcats.htm (4721 words)

	African Wild Cat \| Animal \| Africa... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Preferred prey of the African Wild Cat are mice and rats, but when these are scarce or the opportunity arises, they also feed on birds and arthropods, as well as hares, rabbits and even baby antelopes.
		Apart from the difference in ear colouration and the longer legs, this specie could easily be mistaken for a domestic cat, to which it is so closely related that interbreeding is possible.
		The footprints of the African Wild Cat are similar in shape and size to those of the domestic cat.
	www.safari.co.za /africa_african_wild_cat.html (312 words)

	Nuclear Transfer of Synchronized African Wild Cat Somatic Cells into Enucleated Domestic Cat Oocytes -- Gómez et ...
		The African wild cat is one of the smallest wild cats and its
		cat (Felis silvestris libica) is one of the smallest wild cats,
		nuclei of the African wild cat and the domestic cat to dedifferentiate
	www.biolreprod.org /cgi/content/full/69/3/1032 (6990 words)

	Cat Statues and Cat Sculptures
		It is believed that the first true cat dated back about 12 million years ago and evolved into 3 major categories: the forest cat, the African wild cat, and the Asiatic desert cat.
		Stemming from the African wild cat, the domestic cat as we know it today was first enlisted by the Egyptians around 3000 B.C. to protect grains from rodents.
		Over time, breeders continued to mate those cats portray their most favorable characteristics in order to enhance these desirable attributes and the cat has risen to the status of one of the most popular domesticated animals in the world.
	www.statue.com /cat-statues.html (265 words)

	Wild Cats,Forests of Wild Cats,Big Wild Cats in Forests
		Indeed, cats today, from the domestic cat to the big cats, are descendants of the Carnivorous known as the Miacids.
		The Martelli's wild cat is believed to be the ancestor of the modern small cat, which resulted in the modern wild cat.
		There are many different species of wild cat, from the tiny fl-footed cat of Southern Africa to the majestic cat of Africa.
	www.indiantiger.org /wild-cats (341 words)

	Small Carnivores of Botswana - Jackals, small cats, foxes, honey badger
		The African wild cat is the species which was originally domesticated by the ancient Egyptians around 4000 B.C. and Egyptian drawings and figures, plus thousands of embalmed F.
		Since the African wild cat and the domesticated cat are one and the same species, interbreeding occurs readily and loss of the true wild form is threatened by hybridization wherever it lives in proximity to villages.
		The African wild cat is widespread throughout Botswana (and southern Africa) and tolerates a wide variety of habitats.
	www.african-safari-botswana.com /small-carnivores.htm (1520 words)

	National Geographic Magazine - WildCam AFRICA: African wild cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The wild cat family has various members, only three African ones (chaus, lybica and margarita) are found to be ancestors of the domesticated cat, Felis catus, now found in many forms and shapes all over the world.
		How ever - it is a minor effect in wild cats, while in their domestic relatives it has been developed by selective breeding into a spectacular white underground/flpattern combi incomparable with the slight effect with lots of tawny parts in the wild cat.
		While domestic cats have also a red mutant, this has arrived later in their history since there are no tortie or red wild cats around, whether Felis lybica, chaus, margarita or you name it.
	ftp2.nationalgeographic.com /africam/blog/2005/10/felislybica.html (9220 words)

	Wild Cat - Felis silvestris
		In earlier records, the Wild Cat is sometimes referred to as the Wood Cat, or the British Tiger.
		Today, the Wild Cat is usually named according to the district from which it comes.
		The Wild Cat was once found over a much wider region that it is today, especially in the European part of its range, but it has been exterminated over huge areas as human farming and settlements have spread, destroying its woodland and scrub strongholds.
	www.thebigcats.com /smallcat/wildcat.htm (430 words)

	African Wild Cat's
		I found a cat whom I thought was a domestic cat and now I am thinking that he is an african wild cat...
		Wild/exotic cats (servals, bobcat, etc.) are not ideal pets for the average owner, but they can make "pets" for an owner willing to put up with the MANY challenges they present.
		I do not know much about African wild cats, but I do know that they CAN be made into "pets." Be prepared, however, for they will NOT be as sociable and easy as a domestic.
	www.terrificpets.com /forum/15782.asp (603 words)

	Original Ancestor of the Domestic Cat
		The African Wild Cat, also referred as: Caffer Cat, Caffre Cat, Kaffif Cat, and Egyptian Cat, is slightly larger, and has slightly longer legs than the average domestic cat.
		This cat interbreeds so freely with domestic cats that the pure form of the wild species is nearly extinct, and only survives in very remote areas.
		The African Wild Cat is generally accepted as being the original ancestor of our modern domestic cat.
	www.pawsonline.info /originalancestor.htm (144 words)

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