Wild Cats Listed By Size

Adult males can grow to around 80 centimetres 25ft in length with a shoulder height of between 40 and 50 centimetres.

Wild cats listed by size. Bobcats are sometimes referred to as wildcats and are about twice the size of the average house cat. How many species of big cats are there. Unfortunately amur leopards are one of the worlds most endangered big cats.

Since 2016 its global wild population is listed as Near Threatened as the Rusty Spotted Cats are affected. Most small wild cats are the size of a domesticated cat. Countries in which the species is present include India Cambodia China Bhutan Myanmar Thailand Malaysia and Indonesia The Asian golden cat is over twice the size of a domestic cat.

Feral Cats are the wild offspring of domestic cats and are primarily the result of pet owners abandonment or failure to spay or neuter their animal allowing them to breed uncontrolled. Theyre called bobcats because of their bobbed tail. They can be found in Africa Asia North America South America Central America and Europe.

The Asian golden cat is a mid-sized wild cat found in Southeast Asia. Feral cats are elusive and do not trust humans. The definition of which species are big cats varies between different organisations with some considering just the five species in the Panthera genus to be big cats and others including pumas also known as mountain lions and cougars and cheetahs.

The javan leopard panthera pardus melas and the arabian leopard panthera pardus nimr are both critically endangered with. The Sand Cat Felis margarita lives in the deserts of Africa the Arabian Peninsula and western Asia. It lives in a wide variety of habitats like tropical forests savanna swamps etc.

It is native to India Sri Lanka and western Nepal where it stays in deciduous forests and grasslands. The liger is not present in the wild but as the largest and heaviest cat takes the first place on our list. Feral cats can be found behind homes near businesses and in alleys parks and abandoned buildings.