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Felis bieti (Chinese Mountain Cat; Chinese desert cat)

Synonyms: Felis chaus pallida; Felis pallida; Felis pallida subpallida; Felis silvestris bieti; Poliailurus pallida

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti), also known as the Chinese desert cat and the Chinese steppe cat, is a wild cat of western China that has been classified as Vulnerable by IUCN since 2002, as the effective population size may be fewer than 10,000 mature breeding individuals. It was classified as a wildcat subspecies in 2007, F. silvestris bieti, based on genetic analysis.
View Wikipedia Record: Felis bieti

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Felis bieti

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Not determined do to incomplete vulnerability data.
ED Score: 5.67
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12.125 lbs (5.50 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  101 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [3]  100 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [2]  10 months 8 days
Male Maturity [2]  10 months 4 days
Gestation [2]  65 days
Litter Size [2]  4
Litters / Year [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [2]  28 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [2]  30 inches (77 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ranthambore National Park II 137162 Rajasthan, India
Reserve de la Biosphere de Charlevoix Biosphere Reserve 1383790 Canada  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Kate E. Jones, Dawn M. Kaufman, Tamar Dayan, Pablo A. Marquet, James H. Brown, and John P. Haskell. 2003. Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84:3403
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Myers, 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
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