Small Wild Cats List

The smallest wild cats in the world including the Sand cat of the Sahara the Flat-headed cat of Southeast Asia and the Margay of Central.

Small wild cats list. KodKod cat has the smallest range among wild cats in the Americas. These cats primarily inhabit the mixed temperate rainforests in their range but are also found in other habitats like the fringes of human settlements and secondary forests. Mostly only in northern states along the Canadian border or in mountainous regions.

Another example is the jaguar. These cats have average weight of around 245 kg. Its range is restricted to parts of southern Chile and Argentina.

The same is true for the 3 cat breeds listed below. With a maximum weight of around 25 kg 54 lb the species is smaller than a domestic cat and substantially smaller than the African wildcat. So technically the Toyger cat is not a hybrid with a wildcat except that which comes from the Bengal.

Small Wildcats of the. The bottom three cats are the smallest with probably the Rusty-spotted cat pictured above the smallest of all wild cat species but there is not a lot of research so the figures for the rarer wild cats are open to amendment. The wild cats known to us are.

The Leopardus guigna is the smallest species of wild cat living in the Americas. Small wild cats of Africa. The margay is among the many small spotted cats of Central and South America but this nocturnal hunter has a clever ability that hasnt yet been seen in any of its neighbors.

This is the first cat breed on this list that is a hybrid with a hybrid of a domestic and wildcat breed. Wild Cat Common Name Wild Cat Species Name Wild Cat Continent Range. A rare small wild species that are outnumbered by other wild cats on its native island of Borneo which is divided into Malaysia Brunei and IndonesiaWith the remains of one first mistaken for those of an Asian golden cat but actually much smaller in size it was determined that both had a common ancestor that diverged for 49 to 53 million years way before.