All 40 Species of Wild Cat (Organised by Lineage)
Wildcats are some of the most beautiful and interesting animals on the planet. There are 40 species of wildcat separated into 8 distinct lineages providing one of the most interesting stories of evolution in the animal kingdom. The oldest split between all remaining extant species of cat occurred more than 10 million years ago when Pantherine containing the big five split from Felinae containing the rest of the felids. The Felinae family then continued to diverge until around 1-3 million years ago producing amount others, the Caracal, Ocelot, Lynx, Puma and Domestic Cat lineages. In this guide, we'll explore each split in the Felidae family and the lineages and species of wild cats these evolutionary divergences produced.
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00:51 Panthera Lineage (inc. Lions, Tigers & Jaguars)
07:06 Puma Lineage (inc. Cougar & Cheetah)
09:46 Lynx Lineage (inc. Eurasian Lynx & Bobcat)
13:19 Caracal Lineage (inc. African Golden Cat & Serval)
15:20 Bay Cat Lineage (inc. Asian Golden Cat & Marbled Cat)
16:31 Ocelot Lineage (inc. Oncilla & Margay)
20:40 Leopard Cat Lineage (inc. Pallas’s Cat & Leopard Cat)
24:15 Domestic Cat Lineage (inc. Chinese Desert Cat & European Wildcat)
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Wild cats are the only animals where no matter how diverse... wild, big, small, and no matter the differences, they will still have all the required features for humans to go "look at the cute kitty and it's big fluffy toes". My brain should not have the urge to pet every single one of these, due to survival being necessary, and yet I so want to.
yeah, evolution really just made us go "awwe beeg chonky cat haha"
If I ever get killed by a leopard (i live in South Africa), my last word will be pss pss pss..
Domestic cats are one of the few pets that can go wild in a single generation
@@giwilreker c'mere kitty kitty! **Screaming noises**
True but I wouldn’t pet a lynx. They’re scary. All others are cute.
I like how he goes “large cats are terrifying” and them shows like 50 of the cutest large cat pictures I’ve ever seen
Cute and terrifying are not mutually exclusive.
@@girlbuu9403 The fact that they're so cute may actually make them more terrifying if you see them in action!
haha yeah with that upbeat innocent music
Like 40
I think all cats are cute even bald ones.
I swear the Pallas's cat has to be the most bullied wild cat by us, humans. "Through the powers of natural selection they have evolved to exhibit the _most intensly grumpy stare_ " " _The body is round_ " "His _little legs_ aren't designed for distance"
It's a good thing they don't listen to us.
They found in India too
I once saw a mountain lion jump from rock to rock while riding in a car heading to South Carolina. Took my breath away to see such a beautiful creature in its natural environment.
I saw a bobcat leaping from branch to branch on a conoeing trip in the Everglades. I know what you mean. It's amazing to see National Geographic stuff right in front of you.
@@schooldunce6810it is sad.
wow, U.S. wild cats drive cars and paddle canoes?
I'm so glad they decided to make the small version for all of us to enjoy in our own homes!!!
Just as good as the National Geographic series o tv years ago.
What's funny is unlike dogs they aren't truly domesticated. Cats are the same just small.
@@katherinerichardson2273 But cats wont eat you.
@@christineribone9351actually if you die in your home the cat will eat your flesh
@@ciaraknowes4044 arent you a bundle of joy???
What's fascinating to me is that all cats, regardless of how far apart they are in terms of their lineage, exhibit so many shared features, characteristics, mannerisms and behaviors. You can take any two cats from this video - watch them walk around or even just sit for 5 minutes - and you'll notice huge nearly identical details about the way they function. Makes me think that their nearest common ancestor, the cat progenitor, must have loved boxes too!
What’s super interesting to me is that one species actually became a social animal, when the solitariness of cats is such a defining aspect of them.
@@HkFinn83 You know what, you're right. We take the relative uniqueness of lions for granted! 🦁
i think it's also fascinating how almost every animals have their own identical different species, while we human closest identical species is probably orangutan or ape (tbh idk either and my english is bad, hope you get my point tho). wondering what the world would be like if neanderthals didnt went extinct
@@derry9755 Orangutan is actually one the most distant of our ape relatives. Chimpanzees and specifically bonobos are the closest ones to us.
@@Sabeximus yeah but say the difference between a bobcat and a housecat, i mean they are different but also not too different, while we human and orangutan are very different both physical and mental capability
The Balkan Lynx is considered a national symbol in my country of North Macedonia, it even appears on the back of a coin. As a kid I once saw a Lynx while walking on a mountain with my grandfather. Majestic creature and to this day even after 30 years I can vividly remember how it looked.
What a great memory to have. You're lucky.
I’m Canadian and I have an old coin with a Canada lynx on it! So cool to hear that other countries honour these amazing creatures as well.
Supposedly, there have been some recent sightings of the Balkan Lynx a bit southern as well, in the Greek part of the Pindos mountain range. Until recently, I thought they are found only in the central Balkan regions. I hope we get to see more of them in the future as it would indicate a more healthy ecosystem in the woodlands near where I live.
that's so cool! i couldn't imagine seeing a wild lynx in real life. i live in a region of ohio where bobcats were extirpated but are slowly returning and i really hope i get to see one someday! (from a safe distance of course, lol)
Lol "north macedonia"
Evolution really did the cat species a favour by making them all cute as hell.
Funny story. A friend of mine was once living up by himself in the Virginia mountains and one night he heard some distressed mewling from a kitten. After looking around for a bit he found the kitten, and with no mother anywhere in sight, and having heard this sound for hours, he brought it inside to keep it safe. After a few months the cat had gotten quite a bit bigger, and unfortunately developed a bit of an upper respiratory infection. When he took the cat to a vet they went over it and prescribed a simple antibiotic and gave it some vaccines. The last thing the vet said to me friend? "That's a fine looking bobcat you got yourself, where did you buy it from?" This was, somehow, the first moment my friend realized that his cat was a bobcat, lol.
Oh my gosh I can just see it 😂 ".... Bobcat?"
Lol
I was just expecting the vet to say " how the hell did you get that freaking Puma ? " LMAO 🤣 anyway .. what is a bobcat and how big are they ? I am from south asia so have no idea . We have our bengal tigers tho lol
@@rahatzaman8120 well, the video shows their looks some, but size wise they are about 35 or so pounds. Their height to the shoulder is like, about as tall as a person's knee, give or take some inches. (Not super big, but definitely larger than a house cat by a significant margin.) Not super big, but they have very notable tufts of fur on the tips of their ears, and very short tails.those were the big features that I was most surprised went by unnoticed.
@@rahatzaman8120 the Bobcat is a species of Lynx. They're about the size of a medium sized dog. Definitely not as big or dangerous as a tiger, but they can be a nuisance towards smaller farm animals like chickens or even goats.
Fun fact - my grandad told me once of the cat that would come to his house in jeddah all the time in the 40s that they named MishMish (which means apricot in arabic) . He said it was pretty big and ‘probably a stray’- but very affectionate and relaxed. I was curious and looked up sand cats , showed him the picture with no context and said ‘YES! That’s him :)’. Can’t believe my grandad legit had a wildcat just chilling in his home (Edit: my grandad died two days ago, and knowing how many people found this one part of his life so wonderful is heartwarming. I discovered another deeper story attached to Mishmish and how it was murdered by a neighbors cat leading to a very moral story. I want to turn this into a comic or animated short film, and was going to ask him the details again the next time I saw him, but unfortunately it will have to be from my memory; in his memory. I told him about you all and the attention this comment got a couple weeks before he died, and he was intrigued, if a bit mistified as to why so many people care (he was a man with a crazy life) the answer? The internet loves cats. I love you grandad, and I miss you even more )
WTF this is so strange because there is a cat that visits us that I named MishMish even tho I didn't even know what it meant.
@@konradgranqvist8131 lol 😂
@Icannotfly , that's very strange. In my parent's country (El Salvador), the word for cat is "mish" and it is derived from the Nahuatl's word for cat, "mixti". I did not know that mish or MishMish is a word used by others
@@chewwybeans I know in my house, that's half El Salvadorian and half Boricua, "Mishu" is the default name for a cat and especially your own pet or a kitten. I think it's the equivalent of saying "here kitty kitty" in English, and I k own other Latinos who say the same thing, including Cubans and Mexicans
@@chewwybeans yes in english cat is cat :)
Every single one of these creatures is absolutely beautiful. A reflection of the beauty of nature.
No matter what size and shape these cats are, we can all agree that they're all cute 😂❤
One thing not mentioned, one of the characteristics that distinguishes Felinae from Pantherinae is the ability to either purr or roar. Panthers roar, which brings me to my main point, Google mountain lion purring.
@Oson Houston, actually Felinae is the only extant subfamily of the family Felidae and actually may include both Panthera and Neofelis, plus Felidae is the only extant family of the superfamily Feloidea, this is similar to how Caninae is the only extant subfamily of the family Canidae and Canidae is the only extant family of the superfamily Canoidea, both dogs (family Canidae) and cats (family Felidae) contain thirty-nine extant species placed into fourteen genera, both families are also the type families of each carnivoran suborder, with Canidae being the type family for the suborder Caniformia and Felidae being the type family for the suborder Feliformia.
@@indyreno2933 The felinae you are talking about is used sensu lato, and within that classification it splits into the two extant subfamilies of felinae and pantherinae. It happens a lot in taxonomy, a couple steps up from the carnivora we know and love is a clade called "carnivoramorphia" which is also known as carnivora (sensu lato). In general when we are talking about felinae we mean the subfamily in opposition to pantherinae, not the felinae that you are talking about which is used to differentiate the extant genera from the extinct styriofelis within the styriofelis lineage of cats.
@Nathan Creek, the carnivoran families Canidae (Dogs) and Felidae (Cats) are more alike than known, both families contain thirty-nine extant species within fourteen genera, both families contain only one extant subfamily as well as two notable extinct subfamilies (for Canidae (Hesperocyoninae and Borophaginae) and for Felidae (Proailurinae and Machairodontinae)), both families are the only extant families of the respective superfamilies Canoidea and Feloidea, both families typify the respective suborders Caniformia and Feliformia, however, while the subfamily Caninae of the family Canidae contains three tribes (Urocyonini (contains 1 genus: Urocyon), Cerdocyonini (contains 5 genera: Atelocynus, Speothos, Chrysocyon, Lycalopex, and Cerdocyon), and Canini (contains 8 genera: Vulpes, Alopex, Otocyon, Nyctereutes, Lupulella, Lycaon, Cuon, and Canis)), the subfamily Felinae of the family Felidae contains two extant tribes (Pantherini (contains 5 genera: Herpailurus, Puma, Acinonyx, Neofelis, and Panthera) and Felini (contains 9 genera: Leptailurus, Caracal, Catopuma, Pardofelis, Otocolobus, Lynx, Prionailurus, Leopardus, and Felis)), also within Caniformia the closest living relatives of the dogs (family Canidae) are the ursoids (superfamily Ursoidea) and the pinnipeds (parvorder Pinnipedia), with canoids and ursoids being placed within the parvorder Eufissipedia, which is allied with pinnipeds into the infraorder Cynopsia (meaning "dog-shaped faced ones" in latin), within Feliformia, cats (family Felidae) are the only extant family of the superfamily Feloidea and the infraorder Aeluropsia (meaning "cat-shaped faced ones" in latin), making cats the most distantly related from all the other extant feliform lineages, since all the other nine extant feliform families (Protelidae, Hyaenidae, Nandiniidae, Prionodontidae, Poianidae, Genettidae, Viverridae, Herpestidae, and Eupleridae) are assigned to a separate infraorder named Crocutopsia (meaning "hyena-shaped faced ones" in latin), this is because unlike cats, they looked more superficially like caniforms and a majority of crocutopsian feliforms were omnivores unlike aeluropsians, which were exclusively carnivorous, this still counts Felidae as containing only one extant subfamily, just like Canidae contains only one extant subfamily.
@@indyreno2933 I am deeply impressed by your grasp of carnivore taxonomy, but as someone who mostly works with insects, I just had to say that the treatment of every seperable group of extant feliforms as a distinct family made me wonder if it (carnivore taxonomy) has been taken over by ornithologists... (I also find myself wondering about this with frogs, lately)
Snow leopards can actually purr even though they are in the pantherinae
Fun fact: Jaguars actually have a stronger bite force than the much larger lions. They use this strong bite to pierce crocodile scales and break turtle shells.
Mostly caiman
They have the strongest bite of any of the big cats, including tigers.
@@suraceryan strongest bite relative to their weight In general a siberian Tiger could bite Harder. But thats only because They weigh nearly thrice as much as jaguars while Jaguars "only" bite twice as hard
@@jamieshrubb6298 only*
@Oodles of Noodles edgy
All felines are absolutely amazing and beautiful but my favorite are tigers of course. The full package, the ultimate cat! Kings of all cats 🧡🐯🖤
Easily the best and most noble looking animals on our planet.
You know you’re a rare animal when you’re the only one represented by artist illustrations because there’s no footage of you. The Dale Gribble of the cat world.
actually there have been photos of the African golden cat.
You can find lots of pics on internet
25:09 the most important fact about the Black-footed cat: It's the deadliest cat in the world. With a hunt success rate of more than 60% it's the ultimate predator. And with a weight of 2 kilograms and an overall length of 35-50 centimeters it's truly a force to be reckoned with and I definitely want one
Chadlet
I used to live in San Diego and they have a pair of them at the San Diego Zoo's Safari Park (it's basically a second zoo in the northern part of the county, owned by the same people as the more famous zoo that used to have pandas). They are absolutely adorable in person.
And it DEFINATELY wants you lol
This guy just googled and copy pasted everything he found from top search results
My three favourite big cats are as follows: 1. Snow Leopard 2. Caracal 3. All types of Lynx/Bobcat
They're medium size cat not Big 🤣
Nobody asked for these videos, but i cant thank you enough for this. Literally used to spend days looking through Wikipedia’s of animals and plants to “study” the evolutionary connections of different species. Thank you for this!
Thank you! Me too! I would like to get to plants at some point too, thank you for mentioning them
@@Textbooktravel I’d love to see this on plants. Went through every conifer on Wikipedia and that was incredibly interesting. Definitely would hope to see that sometime!
@@Textbooktravel Plants are a massive category. Maybe stick to wild versions of domesticated plants. Or ones useful to some humans e.g. Deadly Nightshade, Dandelions (for food), St. John's Wort, Datureae, etc.
Yes! This is me exactly. Cool video
I love the way small, domesticated cats are so much like the huge tigers and such. Cats rule!
Hello Sue how are you doing today.
God made the house cat so we would know the thrill of touching the Tiger~
The sure do rule, and most are gorgeous...
Cats save the world!
News flash: I personally saw what appeared to be a Jaguarundi in San Antonio, TX about ten years ago. I was on my way to work on a semi rural road at about 4:30 am and saw it cross in front of me. It had a long slender body with an unusually long tail and the color was dark grey. This cat ran low to the ground and disappeared into the brush. I’ve also seen Caracaras flying here too, so wild animals will find a way to expand range and adapt for survival outside of their supposed boundaries.
Cats are goated in the animal kingdom, especially big cats. No one can change my mind. It contains some of the most beautiful, breathtaking animals I’ve ever seen.
My favorite is the Rusted Spotted Cat. It's like a cat that permanently stays a kitten. Also, something odd I noticed is that the video gives most measurements in Imperial Units (pounds and feet), but gives speed in metric (kilometers).
is lineage here meant as in genus? Is that what the title of the video refers to?
The are the smallest
@@levipeterken4020 Yes
In some places that use the metric system it's not too uncommon for people to use the Imperial System for certain measurements. A lot of people in Canada tend to use Ibs, feet/inches for body measurements unless you're in the medical field or something. A lot of cooking is done in Imperial units also, since imperial measurements tend to be easier to remember (ex. ½cup is easier to remember then 118.3ml). It is a bit weird tho I guess, since most videos stay consistant with their measurement system.
That's a very Canadian thing to do
Telling jaguars and leopards apart: The video is right that both leopards and jaguars have rosettes. (Cheetahs have spots.) The other thing making them hard to distinguish is photos don’t show size very well. If next to each other, an adult jaguar would be way bigger. So I tell their photos apart mainly by build. A leopard is thick in its shoulder-blade area and shoulders, but the rest of its body is a bit slenderer including its slightly smaller head and longer tail. Look at 1:01 where its shoulder blades are bulging, but its head and neck look comparatively delicate. In contrast the jaguar’s muscle is more evenly distributed. It is “beefy” basically everywhere. 5:26 and 5:46 are great for seeing that. Some other good comparisons are where their chests are showing. Compare where the “upper arm” meets the chest at 4:21, to the same area in 5:11 and 5:31 (and 5:06, that dude’s stance looks like a bulldog!) Then look at the tails on any of the beefy dudes, compared to the tail at 4:31. Leopards have long tails for their size! Some jaguars can be identified extra quickly due to having multiple spots inside a single rosette, like at 5:31. (Some leopards have a tiny spot inside a rosette, but I have never seen a leopard photo with multiples like that.) There are subtle head shape differences too when you get a good enough angle to compare. Haha there should be a prize for reading all that 😊
WOW! Thank you for such a detailed comment! You're totally right, I have added some side-by-side comparisons in to the most recent videos, I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks I will look for the videos! Btw to my dismay, almost the next day after writing I saw a leopard with two tiny spots inside a single rosette :} Haha that moment when I am wrong... I still maintain one would not see multiple *strong, dark* spots inside several individual rosettes, except on a jaguar. Cheers
Jaguar heads are much more massive and muscular. This is the first sign I look at when distinguishing jaguars and leopards.
Just wanted to pop in and mention - while it's easier to tell cheetahs apart because they're built much differently and have solid spots, a dead giveaway if you need help memorizing is the stripes on their faces. All cheetahs have a black stripe running from their eyes down to the corners of their mouths, outlining their muzzles.
Very nicely explained!
All of these cats are mind-bogglingly beautiful.
In my opinion, all the speices of cats including wilds and domestics are the best animals in the world!❤
And your opinion is 100% correct, because that is my opinion as well, lol
@tonyprice2256 Yeah I mean mention an animal which is better than any feline...
I normally don't comment on these types of videos, but this was a very well crafted, informative, and compact segment, which is an art in of itself. It strikes a good balance between thoroughness and respects viewers time.
It’s also plagued with misinformation and outdated information
@@iParaShane What were some of the items that you caught?
@@sean_thomson white tigers are not albino. They a leucistic. There are only 2 subspecies of tiger now (Tigris and Sunda). The subspecies mentioned in the video are now considered localities.
Thank you, Sean!
Just what I was thinking
I love the obligatory kitten pictures of each species. Great video!
so in which species is it no longer kitten, but cubs? (research!! considered by most people, anything smaller than clouded or snow leopards are considered kittens, anything larger are cubs, including clouded and snow leopards)
They are all so breathtakingly beautiful... Most beautiful animals on earth ❤
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i am so glad to say that India have 17 types of cat(highest in the world) , including Tiger (Royal bengal tiger , highest in the world❤️ ) Asiatic lions (only found in earth in gir , gujrat) and leopards all arround India and also Cheetah recently reintroduces in Kuno national park of madhya Pradesh of India in my homeland , West Bengal , it has 9 types of cat species with fishing cat , royal Bengal tiger , snow leopard in northern part of West Bengal and also leopards in 3 different sanctuaries . it's awesome to see so many cat on whole world ❤️
Cats are just so amazing they are all unique in their own ways
Agreed! The diversity in the cat family is incredible! Thanks for commenting
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I completely agree
Lioness tend to eat the balls of their victims
You see I thought the opposite, it’s crazy how similar they are among such a large diverse group of animals
I consider felines one of Nature's greatest masterpieces.
Também
I’m partial to puma and snow leopard. I had the thrill of seeing a puma in the wild in Utah, at a roadcut on a seldom used road. It was amazing, someone on our group said it was nine feet long. I was skeptical, but looked it up when I got home, he was right! Another great reason to become a geologist like me: rare wildlife sightings.
Less than two minutes into the video and let me just say, Thank you for taking the time to actually show images of the actual animals when talking about them. Much appreciated!
The Clouded leopard lives in my hometown and though it’s considered a nuisance since they steal chicken from farmers, I love them and I feel like they’re absolutely beautiful.
Asi como lo leo se siente tan salvaje, pero a la vez tan tierno jajaja, me los imagino corriendo de las granjas con las gallinas en sus hocicos.
Are they any danger to humans?
@@kazzykaioken8873 not that I know of. They are very timid and are hardly seen up close. Their name is Kelral - which translates to goat’s bane.
They’re gorgeous. I spent a long time looking for a realistic clouded leopard plush because obviously i can’t have a real one. Stunning cat though.
@@marszenka if you want a pet then you should definitely look up the bengal kitten. Very pretty :)
They're so beautiful and precious. I wish I could pet them all (without dying or losing a limb) lol great video!!
If only you were superman
A lot of big cats are super docile. Cheetahs actually can’t roar and can only meow.
@@simoneidson21 cheetahs aren't big cats
@@simoneidson21 They’d still get your ass
There's places you can pet cheetahs, lions and pumas. Pumas not so much, there is mainly a famous one that enjoys belly rubs. But in Africa there's a bunch pf places you can pet cheetahs and a few with Lions, although with Lions you really have to be careful. They might let a human they know well interact but still attack a stranger.
Cats are the most beautiful, athletic creatures in this world. Many Buddhist monks have spent their lives trying to achieve the mind of a feline-totally in the moment with no regrets or expectations.
There's something so funny about the smallest cats being by far and away the most efficient hunters
The clip at 7:45 is amazing! Those cats are massive, heavy creatures but they are elegant enough to not even break through the snow. Incredible!
Leaving no traces
I saw a kind of Ocelot last week in the jungle, he was as big as a medium dog, what is surprising is that it's not far away from a metropolitan area, nature is healing, lads, south Brazil btw.
In countries where people stop destroying the animals' habitats and killing them for no reason yes, nature can heal. Especially if responsible conservationists help them restore their populations. It's up to us as people though to make sure we balance our land needs with the need to keep plenty of protected habitat for these other wonderful animals to live in.
Not fast enough
Reminds me of the time a few years ago someone filmed a mountain lion walking down Center Street in my town. Yes, really. They are nearby, but they usually stay away from cities!
It was the size of a medium dog? Are you sure it wasn't a young jaguar instead of an ocelot?
im going to brazil
Thank you for the scientific approach. We are treated to so many dramatized documentaries on animals and the wild these days, with a troubling anthropomorphic approach. This documentary was therefore a breath of fresh air in that aspect. I really learned something worth while from it.
I had two ocelots when I was a teen. Loved my cats! After 4 years I donated them to a zoo that had other ocelots it took almost a year of me visiting and have them get used to the other cats in the zoo and then to accept them too
Imagin having ocelot as pets
Felines are just gorgeous amazing animals. This video was extremely well done and very educational. Bravo👏
I really love the Andean Mountain Cat. So cute! The Black Footed Cat is the most efficient predator of all the cats. 93% of their hunts are successful.
I was smitten by the Andean Mountain Cat as well. I only found out about them in the last few years and I immediately found them to be the most beautiful small cat. It’s a shame they’re so endangered
@@RobertSmith-le8wp I absolutely agree! I love your music! Wish and Disintegration are the best albums ever!
I dunno what it is about the kittens of wild cats, but I just can't handle them at all. I think the cuteness short-circuits my brain...like especially when they're inexplicably wall-eyed as kittens but grow up fine.
I grew in the rural southeastern U.S.A. Bobcats were pretty common. They have a horrifying scream that will make you wet yourself. The video mentioned that bobcats don't get much bigger than 35 pounds. We set a cage trap up for one that was eating our chickens. He was 42 pounds. I guess he got fat on chickens
The European wildcats of Scotland have now been identified to be a subspecies, having been isolated for over 8000 years, just like the Fair Isle wren and the St Kilda wren are subspecies of the continental wrens
How can they be isolated when you have the M 1?
Got to ask - do they purr with a Scottish accent?
They only recently were able to get one to take off it's kilt and put down their gahddamn bagpipes long enough to figure out their taxonomy.
damn so it doesn't take THAT long for a new subspecies?
@@Southpaw88that’s what a low population and isolation will do. Unfortunately they are going to go extinct due to interbreeding with feral domestic cats.
Extremely well done…very educational and I thoroughly enjoyed! Pallas cats are my favorite too😸😻😺
Haha! They just look like they need a hug!! Thank you so much, Jennifer! Merry Christmas 🐅🐆🐈⬛
@@Textbooktravel the white tiger is not albino it is luecististic the cat has pigmented lips and blue eyes, albino animals lack any melanocytes at all. While the former basically has what is similar to a dilution gene in a cat or horse. (I know the reference is not exactly accurate.)
They are a trip!
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Interesting story: My dad had a childhood friend whose father owned two mountain lions. The friend and his sister would put motorcycle helmets and padding on and play with the mountain lions. Thankfully, no one was ever injured in the process.
A small note here. Jaguars are suprisingly not specialized habitat wise, they can be also found in chaparral, forests, scrubby vegetation, grasslands and even in some NA deserts.
Well done .but if you can give a diagram to show the roots of each species will be easier to digest.
Thank you for the feedback, Shah! I will definitely be including diagrams in the next one, working on them right now! I wish I had included maps and diagrams in the cat video but one step at a time, I guess! Thanks again!
I agree with everything. Very good video, I wasn't bored for a second, but a cladogram to show each species' place in evolution would have been great, especially as you sorted them all by lineage.
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@@Textbooktravel could you still post the diagram of the cat lineage even though it's not in the video? it could be a community post or something.
@@Textbooktravel If you ever make one you can post it on your website and add the link to the description of this video
The clouded leopard has to be the most beautifully marked of all the "big cats".
My favorite species. I love these cats so much
I love this. I’m in love. Look how cute they are. Please protect them
Excellent coverage of the current relationship between the extant cat species. Look forward to more
Thank you, Glenn! I've begun adding some diagrams and maps into the most recent videos, I wish I'd included them in this one!
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@@Textbooktravelmakes a video on wild cats of india 🇮🇳 *India's 15 wild cats* _highest in the world_ Asiatic lions (only in India) Bengal tiger (biggest cat) Indian leopard Snow leopard Clouded leopard Euresian Lynx Caracal Palla's cat (grumpiest) Rusty spotted cat (smallest) Fishing cats Leopard cats Desert cats Jungle cat Marbled cat Asiatic golden cat
I saw a bobcat once as a teenager. My family's German Shepherd freaked out when she saw it (almost as much as when she sees the vacuum cleaner) and scared it off by growling at it before I could really get more than a glance at it. I was surprised (and more than a bit relieved) that it was half the size I thought a bobcat would be.
Hello Sarah how are you doing today.
Bobcats don't mess around
What a wonderful program, clearly presented, with just the right amount of detail. The photographs are fabulous, showing each cat in super wonderful detail. Being someone who adores all cats, I have now watched this over and over. Thank you for all of the work and time to produce the best program I have ever watched.
Sorry, one correction: there is some controversy around the number of subspecies of jaguars. Some authors have described up to eight. At the very least, South American and North American jaguars are pretty different. South America jaguars are much larger: based on actual weight of captured and studied specimens, males in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela weigh on average 95 kilos (with large ones exceeding 110 kilos) while Belizean male jaguars weigh on average just 57 kilos and Mexican males jaguars weigh only 50 kilos on average (half the weight and the corpulence of their South American brothers).
Jaguars are technically native to the south/southeastern U.S. they've just been hunted put of their habitats.
One correction- male bobcats in the north can reach up to 55 pounds (wild) southern bobcats are smaller, as someone who comes from Pennsylvania (the state that all bobcats originate from) and someone who loves cats, trust. The average for male northern bobcats I’ve seen weighed is 44.
Bobcats do not originate from Pennsylvania. That's literally impossible.
@@NickMachado hey man, I’m just saying what I have been told my entire life 🤷♂️
55lbs? Sheesh that's like the size of a costa Rican puma lol. I would also say that pumas reach super large weights up north but it seems they can be large anywhere across there range. 220lb pumas have been identified as far south in the US as new mexico, arizona and possibly even texas.
This would have been helpful 25 years ago when I did my 5th grade book report on leopards. Stay informing people of the big cats grace and ferocity.
You might have noticed from the video, but another interesting fact about Pallas cats is that their eyes have round pupils rather than the vertical slit pupils that other cats exhibit :)
Excellent video. It was educational & pretty easy to follow. The only thing a gotta say is the range of of the Ocelot & Jaguar extend as far north as the south west U.S. Whilst insanely rare, thier have been a total of several of these big cats documented in the U.S., specifically the sky islands of South Eastern Arizona & South Western New Mexico. Thier historical range (which they are slowly reclaiming themselves) stretched as far north as the Grand Canyon, as far west as extream Southern California, & as far east as Southern Texas. Ocelot's share a fairly similar range (except the Grand Canyon). Sorry for ranting about this. It's just as an Arizona native it makes me proud to now that my state is the foreground for the restoration of north americas rarest wild cats.
Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it! You are very lucky to live in Arizona, it looks incredible!
That is so cool!
There's still about 50 Ocelots in Texas
I live in Virginia and I’ve had a Jaguar in my backyard with no zoos nearby sooo I’m scared now
@@camdenfix7217 if you saw a jag in Virginia, you should call your local authorities. That is out side there current natural range, & just outside there historic range. I'm not saying relocate the big cat, but it's presence in your area could potentially have a major impact on the ecosystem, & not the good kind. Also watch your back, they're not an apex predator for nothing.
Out of all of this, it's amazing at how beautiful and clean these gorgeous creatures keep their appearance. 😍😍😍 So pretty
Just came across your channel and are really excited to watch most of your videos. Haven't seen videos this dedicated in explaining contemporary wildlife :)
I've always loved cats and felines, but the big wild cats always make me a bit sad. Especially the tigers. They need big areas of wilderness, and I don't like that humans encroach in their world too much, which is why they're endangered. Part of what makes them beautiful is them living and existing within their environments. I once saw a tiger in the zoo, and I watched it pace around with nothing to do, and as much as I would love to pet one it just made me depressed.
Jaguars also can be found in North America. there Historic range extended all the way to Florida but is now confined to the dessert Southwestern US. Mainly Arizona.
From what I heard the Iberian Lynx population was so low because of a French doctor that released a virus to kill the rabbits that roamed/damaged his home grounds, by doing that he almost decimated the entire rabbit population in France down to Spain and Portugal, it being the main meal of the Lynx, they quickly dropped in numbers not finding enough food
I've only felt primal fear one time, and it was when a 300 kg Amur-Tiger male locked onto me with his eyes at close proximity.
this was an excellent video, it was fantastic in its ability to be brief on each entry so as to not overextend the length while still providing interesting information for each one. i also really loved the brief beginning detour of expressing your love of the pallas cat, especially as someone who also loves them myself :-D
Love this video! I love cats and didn't know there are so many beautiful cats in the world! Thank you!
Thank you! I really enjoyed researching this one and finding the photos! So many beautiful species, Merry Christmas!
I grew up learning the lynx and the bobcat as separate animals, so I think that was in reference to the Canadian lynx and bobcat. The more you learn
Hello Ann how are you doing today.
There are several species of lynx. The Canada lynx and the bobcat are two of them. So a bobcat is a lynx but a separate species from the Canada lynx.
Big fan of cats, whether they're huge or teeny tiny. Great video!
Same.
That siberian tiger at 2:02 is just mesmerisingly beautiful with an incredibly dangerous looks.
Besides being beautiful and dangerous, that cat is huge.
This has been so very cool! Whether they purr, roar, or meow, they're all beautiful. ❤🐈⬛🐈❤🐯🐅😍🐆😍🐅🐯❤🐈🐈⬛❤
I want to correct you. Cheetah and yaguarandi are not recognized as part of the puma genus. Cheetah is classified into his own genus Acinonyx, same with yaguarandi (Herpailuris). The fact that you have classified them by lineages is nice, but in my opinion can derivate in some confusion because, like in this case and in the Neofelis one with the phanteras they are not as close as most of the people probably have understanded.
Thanks for your feedback, Ban's! Taxonomy is tricky one isn't it! I did read that there was some debate over that lineage and that it had been reclassified several times. Do you recommend a particular source for taxonomy? I really like using the Animal Diversity website for information relating to each species but they don't have any information on the relationship between species/genera so I have to rely mainly on Wikipedia for that, which isn't always the most accurate. Thanks again, Merry Christmas!
He didn't say same genus, he only said lineage which is correct
@@shafqatishan437 oooooo tell em
Oh I love your response. I'm also impressed with the way you express yourself. With that being said, I hope you won't be offended if I tell you about one word you used, because I wonder if English is your second language. The very last word in your comment should be "understood." I do know what you were saying, as I'm sure everyone else who read your comment did, and if you wish to correct it, you can edit the comment. All you need to do is click on the "Actions" button which is just below the "reply" button, and type the word "understood" to replace the word "understanded". Just make sure you delete only the word "understanded", or you can just delete the "anded" and replace it with "ood". Finally, just save the updated comment right below the "cancel" button, and voila! It's certainly up to you whether you wish to do that, but it just makes it grammatically correct.
Sleeps in the burrows of other animals is the most cat like thing I've ever heard
Being a city boy, I have a hard time imagining all these beautiful creatures out in the wild. Wonderful video
Excellent! The photographs are wonderful, some of the best I've seen, and the explanations are clear, well balanced and even witty. Glad to have discovered this channel.
Cats as a whole are one of best athletes on the planet. But the best athletes between cats are probably the snow leopards. Seeing them chase prey down a sheer mountain ⛰️ 😍 is truly a sight to behold
I love wild cats, man. Nature is so wonderful!! They are gorgeous
When I was a kid I was obsessed with cheetahs. I was waiting for the mention of the King cheetah they are also quite rare with only 2500-7500 remaining.
The brow of the snow leopard and the tiger really do look similar, even their eye shape. Ever since I was a kid, I always suspected they were related; my theory is correct.
One of the small cats had the highest success rates out of all other cats. I think it was the desert cat
I remember reading that the black-footed cat has the highest percentage of successful hunts (how many hunts result in a kill vs prey that escapes) of all the wild cats, was that it?
@@dbseamz That's right. I had to look it up, they have 60%, followed by cheetahs at 58%, and the next doesn't come close
In the grand scheme of things most cats are pretty closely related which is pretty cool!
Excellent video, thanks! I love felines. As others have said, it’s amazing how from large to small all felines are characteristically similar, all representative of the cat kind. Also amazing how only 2 cats of the cat kind were on the ark about 4500 years ago during the Great Flood and how all cat species we know today came from their dense genetic diversity. Then through diversity and natural selection we have all the amazing species we see and love today. Amazing!
Religious vomit.
I genuinely loved this video, I can't wait to see what else you have on offer!
I thought I was watching a video of a channel with easily more than a million subs. Turns out you have 8k, you deserve so much more. Really well made documentation, you made my evening! Good job and stay healthy, I'm eager to see more
40K now!
@@pookeyblow Absolutely deserved
I love this video, very informative and entertaining. I really appreciate that you credited all of the photographers
Living in northern Maine about 2011, I went out to feed my goats in the morning and there was a cat that looked exactly like the serval in body shape and size but it was all light gray with a white chest. I don't know what it really was but I know it wasn't a lynx, bobcat or cougar. I was able to watch it for over a minute because it was inside my goats pen, when it saw me it bolted and hit the fence 3 times before it finally jumped out. The goats were locked up in their shed so they were never in any danger.
I was just researching about Asiatic golden cats! I had no idea that there were more cats like them, cats of Southeast Asia are so difficult to find information on because they're so hard to come by in the wild, this video was super awesome and informative!
Keep doin what you're doin(and get better while you do) and you're gonna a massively popular channel on your hands. Thanks for the content!
I felt like I was witnessing it with my own eyes. This video has a great vibe, releases stress and is super relaxing and soothing to the mind. Thanks to the entire crew member behind this video. Great 💪
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Your channel is going to explode, man. It's really good. So thoughtfully made and the images you found for this one are tops! I wish you the best.
It’s been a bit since this was posted, but I’d just like to say I’m thankful for this amazing content, felines have been my favored animal for some time now, this was a great watch.
God sure did a great job with all these kitties! ❤️
religious crap
@@Dr.Ian-Plect Correction: spiritual crap. The term' God' was used without any specific religion mentioned. People can believe in God without being involved with any organized religion.
@@tonyprice2256 Since you are showing yourself to be a pedantic oxygen thief; go and read my reply to your silly cougar comment, and understand how your tact can lead to flawed replies. ---------- 'God' can be a religious reference, that's what I interpreted it as, end of.
A wonderful collection, thanks for all of the effort you have put into this!
Great video. Good stuff. I love cats. I subbed. The cheetah is not the "fastest animal," that is the perigrine falcon. The cheetah is the fastest land animal... I had never heard of the jaguarundi. Very cool.
Thanks, James! Someone else brought up the falcon too!! I hadn't even considered the speed of birds, I'll try to be more specific in the future, thanks for the feedback!
@@Textbooktravel LoL It's a fun, trick trivia question. The peregrine falcon flys fast though; check it out! Flying horizontally at 70MPH and dives at 200MPH!!! (Round numbers)