While North America might have the largest population of pet cats, it’s home to only six native species of wild cats. Unfortunately, deforestation and human interference have caused a decline in ...

Interestingly, in a poll of zookeepers, these African wildcats still rank as the friendliest among wild cat species today. In the reign of Thutmose III, 3,500 years ago, the city of Bubastis rose ...

Urs Breitenmoser, co-chair of the IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group, welcomes the new research on the “understudied cat species.” He believes it will be useful in the ongoing reassessment of the ...

Malaysia’s tropical jungle is one of the most cat-rich areas of the planet. It is famous for its tiger population, but eight other species of wild cats also roam, such as the clouded leopard ...

Gold-ringed cat snakes (left), also known as Boiga dendrophila, is a yellow and black snake that's native to Asia. Black jaguars (right), also known as Panthera once, is a wild cat native to South ...

Survey results in Wild Cat Conservation Needs: An Examination of Public Perception showed that zoo guests not only displayed a greater knowledge of large wild cats than small wild cats, but that they ...

Black-Footed Cat Facts According to Big Cat Rescue, black-footed cats are the smallest wild cat species in Africa, or so it's widely believed. These little balls of fury only weigh between 2.4 lb ...

Sand cats rocketed to fame in 2017 when photos of the wee wild cats from a study conducted by Grégory Breton, managing director of Panthera France, took the Internet by storm. Weighing up to just ...

Exotic African wild cat on the loose in Decatur, Illinois This Nov. 7, 2017, file photo shows a serval rescued from the streets of Reading, Pa., by the Animal Rescue League of Berks County.