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Felis silvestris (Wildcat; wild cat)

Wikipedia Abstract

The wildcat (Felis silvestris) is a small cat native to most of Africa, Europe, and Southwest and Central Asia into India, western China, and Mongolia. Because of its wide range it is assessed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2002. However, crossbreeding of wildcat and domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) occurs in particular in Europe and is considered a potential threat for the preservation of the wild species.
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Infraspecies

Felis silvestris cafra (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris caucasica (European wild cat)
Felis silvestris caudata (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris chutuchta (Asian wild cat)
Felis silvestris cretensis
Felis silvestris foxi (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris gordoni (Gordon's wild cat)
Felis silvestris grampia (Scottish wild cat)
Felis silvestris griselda (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris haussa
Felis silvestris iraki (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris jordansi (Mallorcan wild cat)
Felis silvestris lybica (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris mellandi (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris nesterovi (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris ocreata (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris ornata (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris reyi (Corsican wild cat)
Felis silvestris rubida (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris silvestris (European wild cat)
Felis silvestris tartessia
Felis silvestris tristrami (African wild cat)
Felis silvestris ugandae
Felis silvestris vellerosa (Asian wild cat)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.6
EDGE Score: 1.89
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12.125 lbs (5.50 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  100 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  10 months 4 days
Male Maturity [1]  10 months 4 days
Gestation [1]  64 days
Litter Size [1]  4
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  19 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  24 inches (62 cm)
Weaning [1]  87 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Canis lupus (Wolf)[5]
Felis silvestris (Wildcat)[5]
Vulpes vulpes (Red Fox)[5]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Ecology of Commanster
♦ 7Bathyergus suillus (Rodentia: Bathyergidae), NIGEL C. BENNETT, CHRIS G. FAULKES, LEANNE HART, AND JENNIFER U. M. JARVIS, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 828:1–7 (2009)
♦ 8Glis glis (Rodentia: Gliridae), BORIS KRYSTUFEK, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(865):195–206 (2010)
♦ 9Madoqua guentheri, Steven C. Kingswood and Arlene T. Kumamoto, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 539, pp. 1-10 (1996)
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 11International Flea Database
♦ 12Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0