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	Chinese Desert Cat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chinese Desert Cat (Felis bieti), also known as the Chinese Mountain Cat, is a small wild cat of western China.
		Chinese Desert Cats are active at night; they hunt for rodents, pikas and birds.
		This cat is protected in China, but it is still endangered due to the organised poisoning of pikas, their main prey; these poisonings either kill the cats unintentionally, or withdraw their food basis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_Desert_Cat (246 words)

	Chinese Desert Cat
		The Chinese desert cat is very closely related to the wildcat (Felis silvestris) and the jungle cat (Felis chaus); it may yet prove to be a subspecies of one of these two.
		It is also known, more appropriately, as the Chinese mountain cat, and also as the pale cat, the grass cat or the pale desert cat.
		The Chinese desert cat is found in similar habitat to the giant panda.
	members.aol.com /cattrust/chinese.htm (479 words)

	The Cats (Family Felidae; Order Carnivora)
		Cats, with the notable exception of lions and to a lesser extent domestic cats, are habitually solitary, however they are sometimes are found in pairs (either m/m, f/f or m/f) or larger groups consisting of a single adult female and her immature young.
		Cats do not actually see in the dark, but they can see quite well in a light environment that appears dark to humans because of the physical limitations of our eyes, effectively their sight is 6 times better than ours under low-light conditions, albeit it is merely equal to ours in normal daylight.
		Cats produce species specific and individually specific odours from their anal sacs as well as from three special sets of scent glands; these are known as their facial (on the face), interdigital (between the toes) and subcaudal (beneath the tail) glands.
	www.earthlife.net /mammals/cats.html (4015 words)

	Family Cat-Dog Clothes-Popular Cats-Small Dog Clothing
		The earliest ancestor of the cat was the
		The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African wild cat.
		Cats are one of the oldest mammals on the earth.
	www.littlepamperedpets.com /pet_articles/cat-family.html (572 words)

	Chinese Mountain Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The chinese desert cat has been reported in areas of Mongolia, Tibet and parts of western China in habitats which range from rocky steppes to mountain forests up to around 10,000 feet - interestingly the cat is rarely found in desert areas as its name implies.
		The head of the chinese desert cat is somewhat broad and sports short darkened tufts on its ears.
		Almost nothing is known of the hunting habits of this wild cat, however it can be presumed to follow that of its close relations in the genus felis with prey consisting of mainly rodents, small mammals, birds and reptiles.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /agarman/chinacat.htm (179 words)

	CSG Species Accounts: Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti)
		The Chinese mountain cat, endemic to China, is one of the least-known cats.
		Chinese mountain cats are predominantly nocturnal, active from dusk to dawn in captivity (B.
		Chinese specialists meeting in Beijing in 1992 concurred with Groves’ (1980) suggestion that it be described as the “mountain cat” (Jackson 1992b).
	lynx.uio.no /lynx/catsgportal/cat-website/catfolk/bieti-01.htm (905 words)

	The Origin of The Cat
		The domestic cat, as a directs descendant from or a subspecies of the African wildcat, is placed in the genus Felis, which represents the Domestic cat lineage the second oldest branch of the Felid family tree.
		In her size, the African Wildcat is indifferent to the domestic cat, and an African Wildcat is very difficult to distinguish from a domestic tabby in the field.
		Because of the wide distribution of the domestic cat and overwhelming numbers of stray animals, hybridization of stray domestic cats and wild cats is raising concerns, however.
	www.pets1st.com /articles/00076originofthecat.asp (1788 words)

	Sand Cat
		Sand cats are about the size of a small domestic cat, and very similar to the Chinese desert cat (Felis bieti).
		Sand cats hunt exclusively at night, but Mendelssohn (1989) reports that they are often seen outside their burrows during the day.
		Zoo populations of sand cats are dwindling, and are extremely inbred, they are likely to have been descended from only one wild-caught pair.
	hometown.aol.com /cattrust/sand.htm (1006 words)

	Chinese Mountain Cat
		Chinese mountain cats are predominantly nocturnal, active from dusk to dawn in captivity, and they hunt primarily in the early morning and evening in the wild.
		According to one researcher, the Chinese mountain cat is found throughout the Datong and Daban mountains around Xining (where eight skins were collected in 1893), at elevations ranging from 9,186-13,451 feet (2,800-4,100 m).
		Despite its traditional name (Chinese desert cat), it appears not to be a desert cat at all, although it may occur there marginally.
	kisser.freeservers.com /ChineseMtCat.html (801 words)

	Animal Info - Chinese Mountain Cat
		The principal habitat of the Chinese mountain cat is comprised of mountainous terrain; including alpine meadow, alpine shrubland, coniferous forest edges, and hilly loess steppe grassland, at altitudes between 2500 - 5000 m (8200 - 16,400').
		The Chinese mountain cat is placed in the "domestic cat lineage," which diverged from its ancestors as a separate lineage 6.2 million years ago.
		The domestic cat lineage also includes the domestic cat, the European wild cat, the African wild cat, the desert cat, the fl-footed cat and the jungle cat.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/carnivor/felibiet.htm (1282 words)

	This is The North East \| CommuniGate \| Did You Know......??
		Cats are used in scientific studies related to vision because cats have more nerve cells in their brain for vision as compared to human beings and all other mammals.
		Cats can learn dozens of activities like handshaking with paw, begging, opening door, turning on lights, jumping through hoop, opening windows, opening refrigerators, playing musical instruments, eating food with the help of their paws, ringing bell, acting dead, rolling on floor on command, hide food in boxes and walking on a leash.
		When the end of life of cat is near, cat try to find a secluded spot in which to die with dignity, either under a bush, in the trunk of a tree or a crumbled hut so as not to disturb or be disturbed in the moment of the most quiet sleep.
	www.communigate.co.uk /ne/catcare/page63.phtml (9376 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain -- Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti) facts and pictures
		The Chinese mountain cat inhabits the steppelands and montane regions of south-western China and northeastern Mongolia.
		The Chinese mountain cat is approximately the size of a domestic cat.
		The Chinese mountain cat is solitary, and they live in burrows with a single entrance, with the females' burrows being deeper than the males.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=45 (425 words)

	Chinese Desert Cat,Chinese Brown Desert Cat,Dark Brown Desert Cat of China
		The Chinese desert cat which is a very rare cat, is a well-proportioned cat- sized cat.
		Like the sand cat, the soles of its feet are covered with thick mats of fur to protect it from the hot sands.
		Physical appearance: The Chinese desert cat is very closely related to the wildcat (Felis silvestris) and the jungle cat (Felis chaus); it may yet prove to be a subspecies of one of these two.
	www.indiantiger.org /wild-cats/chinese-desert-cat.html (374 words)

	Jodi's Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the Wild Cat group, which consists of over a half dozen small, feral cats, there is the European Wild Cat, the Scottish Wild Cat, the Asiatic Steppe Cat, the African Wild Cat, the Indian Desert Cat, the Sand Cat, and the Chinese Desert Cat.
		When compared to their cousins, the domestic house cats, the Wild Cat is more heavily built having larger bodies, longer legs, longer, squarer heads, more pointed ears, bigger teeth, and a full, short tail with a rounded tip.
		The head and body of the Wild Cat is 18 1/2 to 29 1/2 inches (47 to 75 cm) and the tail is 8 1/2 to 14 inches (21 to 35 cm).
	members.tripod.com /~Cicero/WILDCAT1.HTM (405 words)

	Chinese Mountain Cat - Felis bieti
		Chinese Mountain Cats contrary to its name, does not only inhabit the mountains but is found in open country, alpine meadows and forest, bamboo or brush covered mountainsides residing at elevations reaching over 4,000 metres.
		These rare cats are fully protected in China, with little incident of hunting though poaching for pelts and body parts is a very real threat to their survival.
		Rivalry for the Chinese Mountain Cat's exists in with their primary Pika prey which has been the target of large scale poisoning campaigns in attempt to control competition with the local's domestic livestock.
	www.tigerhomes.org /wild-cats/wc-chinese-mountain-cat.cfm (674 words)

	HISTORY OF CATS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most researchers agree that the ancestor of the cat was a weasel like creature that lived about 40 or 50 million years ago.
		The first known contact of cats with humans occurred during the end of the stone age.
		These chromosomes are arranged in pairs: 19 pairs in a cat, 23 pairs in a human.
	www.azwestern.edu /astro/Student_web_pages/cats.htm (418 words)

	Cat Breeds
		In the Eastern Hemisphere, the Rusty Spotted Cat of India and Sri Lanka, and the Black Footed Cat of South Africa are the smallest of the wild felids.
		The greatest threat to the Rusty Spotted Cat populations is habitat destruction.
		Although the Rusty Spotted Cat is not yet officially considered “threatened” in the wild, several concerned wild animal preservation groups are monitoring the wild populations.
	www.cat-domain.com /cats_felis/felis.htm (1512 words)

	Chinese Mountain Cat
		Florida law requires that all charities soliciting donations disclose their registration number and the percentage of your donation that goes to the cause and the amount that goes to the solicitor.
		Misc.: Another one of the world’s least known felines, the Chinese Mountain Cat was originally called the Chinese Desert Cat, but in 1992 it was agreed to change it to the Chinese Mountain Cat since it never actually inhabited the desert at all.
		Size and Appearance: A small stocky built cat with relatively short legs, the Chinese Mountain cat weighs between 10-20 pounds and is between 38.5-47 inches long.
	www.bigcatrescue.org /chinese_mountain_cat.htm (534 words)

	Welcome to Project Survival's Cat Haven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The most comprehensive source of information currently available on wild cats is to be found in the IUCN publication: 'Wild Cats, Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan' compiled by Kristin Nowell and Peter Jackson (ISBN 2-8317-0045-0).
		The taxonomic status of some wild cats remains controversial and is likely to be debated for years to come.
		The hybrid offspring (called Bengal or Safari cats) are sometimes misrepresented by breeders as being the result of a cross between domestic cats and leopards (Panthera pardus), a big cat weighing 70 - 120lbs.
	www.cathaven.com /education/specie.htm (419 words)

	chinesedesertcat
		This cat weighs only 12 pounds and is an extremely rare cat.
		The Chinese Desert Cats breed between January and Mark, with litters most often born in May. Litters range from 2 - 4 young, and the offspring reach independence at 7 - 8 months.
		The Chinese Desert Cat is fully protected in China.
	chrissiebigcats.homestead.com /chinesedesertcat.html (164 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Chinese desert cat is distributed throughout the rocky steppes, brush-covered or forested mountains in central Asia, southern Mongolia and the western Chinese provinces of Gansu and Sichuan near the border with Tibet, but is not generally found in deserts habitats as its name implies.
		This cat has a yellowish-grey coat with brownish streaks on its cheeks, brownish spots on its haunches sometimes merging into stripes, a long tail with 3 or 4 dark concentric rings ending in a flish tip.
		Although little is known of the daily life of the Chinese desert cat it is believed to hunt small mammals, birds, insects and reptiles in its mountainous habitat.
	home.globalcrossing.net /~brendel/chines.html (192 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Chinese mountain cat, Chinese desert cat
		The skull is broad with large, slightly tufted ears, and the soles of the feet are padded with fur.
		Mountain cats are nocturnal and hunt late at night and in the early morning.
		Mountain cats are on CITES: Appendix II, and their status is classed as Data Deficient by the IUCN.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/22.shtml (202 words)

	Exotic Feline Species
		This diminutive South American cat is the size of a domestic cat or smaller, with a striking spotted coat.
		A 20-40 pound spotted cat native to Africa, the serval resembles a miniature cheetah.
		Hybrids can be perfect for people who are fascinated by exotic cats such as servals and want their wild look without the difficulties and permit requirements that often accompany exotic feline ownership.
	exoticcatz.com /species.html (705 words)

	Chinese Mountain Cat or Chinese Desert Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A very rare cat, the Chinese mountain cat is a well- proportioned cat-sized cat.
		Its coat is sandy brown with distinctive darker brown spots set in wide-spaced vertical rows.
		The Chinese mountain cat may be found in the deserts, steppes, scrub and mountains of Mongolia and China, where it hunts by night, from the ground, and seeks small rodents and reptiles.
	www.tigertouch.org /cats/chinesemountaincat.html (94 words)

	Sand Cat,Desert Sand Cat,Wild Sand Cat in Desert
		Presence on the planet: The sand cat inhabits the arid regions, in five distinct populations in the Middle East.
		Two occur in the Sahara desert in northern Africa, one population is in southern Saudi Arabia, one around the Caspian Sea in Russia, and one in Pakistan.
		The dense soft fur can be any color from sandy to a light grey in ground color, with bands of dark brown to fl around its legs, dark bands coming from the corner of each eye on the sides of its face, and a white muzzle.
	www.indiantiger.org /wild-cats/sand-cat.html (757 words)

	CentralPets.com - Chinese Mountain Cat Page (Printer Friendly Version)
		The Chinese Mountain Cat, also known as the Chinese Desert Cat, is one of the least-studied of the exotic cats.
		From a young age, the cat should be taught not to claw, bite, or climb on owners.
		The cat's base coat is often yellow-gray in color with light stripes on its legs and sides.
	www.centralpets.com /phpscripts/PrintFriendly.php?AnimalNumber=3042 (648 words)

	Desert Cat's Musings
		The vet said it was an ulcer from a herpes virus in his eye, together with a secondary bacterial infection.
		The reason the workshop is open to the cats is first to keep the food out of the rain, and second to keep it in a place I can effectively treat for harvester ants.
		A big bowl of cat food plus ants is not cat food.
	desertcat.blogspot.com (5615 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Felis bieti
		Based on estimates of geographic range and average densities of other small cats (Nowell and Jackson 1996), the Chinese mountain cat's total effective population size is estimated at below 10,000 mature breeding individuals, with a declining trend due to loss of prey base and persecution, and no subpopulation containing more than 1,000 mature individuals.
		Zinc phosphide was one of the main chemicals used, from the onset of control efforts until 1978, when its use was discontinued because it was discovered that it also killed carnivores that preyed on pikas.
		The 1992 meeting of the Cat Specialist Group in Beijing recommended upgrading to Category I, which requires permission of national, rather than provincial, authorities to hunt or trade (Nowell and Jackson 1996), but this has not yet been done.
	www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/8539/all (554 words)

	Big Cat? Small Cat? What defines one from the other?
		Quite confusingly, big cats are not necessarily big and small cats are not necessarily small.
		For instance, a body size comparison between the puma and the leopard shows they are very much the same size yet one is considered a small cat and the other comes under big cats.
		As previously noted in this article, the defining characteristic is the flexible hyoid which also gives the cat the ability to roar.
	www.lairweb.org.nz /tiger/big2.html (160 words)

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