Small Wild Cats List

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.

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. The most noticeable feature of Pallas cats is their long beautiful coat. Female Toyger cats weigh between 7 and 10 pounds and the males are 10-15 pounds.

In reality there are a few small cat species that most people dont even know exist that make. They occur only in central and southern Chile with small population in Argentina. In fact this species only has a size of a domestic cat.

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 Leopardus guigna is the smallest species of wild cat living in the Americas. Geoffroys cats are one of the smallest wild cat species on earth.

This wild cat species list shows the 40 wild cats in the felidae family with their common names and scientific names species names. This is the first cat breed on this list that is a hybrid with a hybrid of a domestic and wildcat breed. So technically the Toyger cat is not a hybrid with a wildcat except that which comes from the Bengal.

Here is a list of the wild cats of North America. The same is true for the 3 cat breeds listed below. Jungle cats are solitary in nature.

Male jaguars in Venezuela are almost twice the weight of those in Belize 104 kg to 56 kg. Pallas cat is a small wild cat that lives in the grasslands and steppes of Central Asia. Lynx canadensis is one of the small wild cats living in North America.