African Wild Cats List

Bobcat The bobcat can be found in North America from Canada to the northern part of Mexico.

African wild cats list. List by Common Name. Only the tiger is bigger. All Wild Cat Lists.

African Golden Cat Caracal aurata Caracal Caracal caracal Serval Leptailurus serval Felis Lineage. The ten wild cats of Africa include three big cats three medium sized cats and four small cats. No wild cat species is black as a default or standard coat color.

Acinonyx jubatus The Cheetah is pale tawny brown or grayish white above with oval black spots about 2cm - 4cm in diameter. Smaller than a big cat and larger than the small cat come the appropriately-named medium cats. List of Cats In The Wild.

No wild cats list would be complete without the lion. Serval is three to four feet long wild cat believed to be the ancestor of both the cheetah and the lion. They live in diverse habitats including forests swamps and deserts.

Hausa Thomas and Hinton 1921. Wild Cats of Africa. Jungle Cat Felis chaus African Wildcat Felis lybica Sand Cat Felis margarita.

And neither can some wild cats who through a genetic mutation have become black be genuinely called black. Wild Cats of Africa List by Lineage. Some individuals have a blotched pattern but this is rare.