(See National Geographic readers' pictures of cats.) Speaking of wild cats, how similar is our average house cat to its wild ancestors? They’re very, very similar. Domestic cats have only been ...

The world's largest wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal is home to around 5,000 jaguars and is the best place on earth to see the ...

Even though cats were domesticated relatively recently, their relationship with us has already changed them in surprising ways. Sphinx catCats kept as pets, like this sphinx cat, likely will ...

Together with the Wild Animal Sanctuary ... Photographer Steve Winter specializes in big cats. The nonprofit National Geographic Society, working to conserve Earth’s resources, helped fund ...

"One of nearly 40 wild cat ... of the National Cancer Institute and scientists at the University of Oxford in England found five matriarchal lineages to which modern domestic cats belong.

Though some caracals have killed pet cats, research shows Cape Town’s caracals predominately hunt wild prey ... She had to convince South African National Parks to grant her a permit to study ...

About two-thirds of the bird deaths were attributed to feral cats, living wild. As birds’ total U.S. population at any given moment has been estimated at around 10 billion to 20 billion ...

Over the past three decades, he has focused on investigating the reproductive biology of domestic cats and endangered small-sized wild cat species to improve their breeding management and ...