Wild Cats Listed By Size

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Wild cats listed by size. Feral cats can be found behind homes near businesses and in alleys parks and abandoned buildings. From the biggest to the smallest there are 38 cat species found worldwide. How many species of big cats are there.

Since 2016 its global wild population is listed as Near Threatened as the Rusty Spotted Cats are affected. Sand Cats have wide heads and fur growing between the toes a feature often found in Arctic cats. Its coat is typically golden-red but a wide range of other color varieties are known.

The list does not contain cat hybrids such as the liger. Being one of the lesser studied South Asian carnivores it has been listed as vulnerable by IUCN only in 2002. The liger is not present in the wild but as the largest and heaviest cat takes the first place on our list.

But somethe lion tiger leopard snow leopard clouded leopard jaguar lynx and cheetahare big. Of the worlds total species of wild cats over 80 are small wild cats. Bobcats are sometimes referred to as wildcats and are about twice the size of the average house cat.

The Asian golden cat is a mid-sized wild cat found in Southeast Asia. Adult males can grow to around 80 centimetres 25ft in length with a shoulder height of between 40 and 50 centimetres. It lives in a wide variety of habitats like tropical forests savanna swamps etc.

Most small wild cats are the size of a domesticated cat. The Leopardus pardalis is a wild cat whose range extends from the southwestern parts of the US to South America. The Fishing Cat is a good example of this with females being 6-7 kg 14 lbs and males being 11-12 kg 26 lbs.