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Kellas cat. The Kellas cat is a large black cat found in Scotland. It is an interspecific hybrid between the Scottish wildcat ( Felis silvestris silvestris syn. Felis silvestris grampia) and the domestic cat ( Felis catus ). Once thought to be a mythological wild cat, with its few sightings dismissed as hoaxes, a specimen was killed in a snare ...
List of surviving Grumman F4F Wildcats. F4F-3 in Guadalcanal Diorama at the Pacific Aviation Museum, Hawaii. The Grumman F4F Wildcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft used by the United States Navy, and the British Royal Navy during World War II. Surviving Wildcats are preserved in museums and some are flying Warbirds.
"Don't Fence Me In" is a popular American song written in 1934, with music by Cole Porter and lyrics by Robert Fletcher and Cole Porter. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. "
Felis haussa by Oldfield Thomas and Martin Hinton in 1921 was a skull and a sandy-coloured skin of a male wildcat from the Aïr Mountains south of Zinder. Felis ocreata griselda and F. o. namaquana by Oldfield Thomas in 1926 was a pale wildcat skin from south of Benguela in Angola and another pale wildcat skin from Namaqualand in Namibia.
The wildcat is a species complex comprising two small wild cat species: the European wildcat (Felis silvestris) and the African wildcat (F. lybica).The European wildcat inhabits forests in Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus, while the African wildcat inhabits semi-arid landscapes and steppes in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia, into western India and western China.
The black-footed cat ( Felis nigripes ), also called the small-spotted cat, is the smallest wild cat in Africa, having a head-and-body length of 35–52 cm (14–20 in). Despite its name, only the soles of its feet are black or dark brown. With its bold small spots and stripes on the tawny fur, it is well camouflaged, especially on moonlit nights.
The Cretan wildcat was originally described as a separate subspecies, Felis ocreata agrius, of wildcat by Bate in 1906. This was contested by Pocock in 1907, who said the skin was that of a feral domestic cat, but Miller in 1912 considered it a full species as Felis agrius, while Schwarz in 1930 followed Miss Bate's opinion. Pocock in 1951 ...
Gray, 1830–1832. The Asiatic wildcat ( Felis lybica ornata ), also known as the Asian steppe wildcat and the Indian desert cat, is an African wildcat subspecies that occurs from the eastern Caspian Sea north to Kazakhstan, into western India, western China and southern Mongolia. [1] [2] There is no information on current status or population ...