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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

"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.

These cats face a plethora of threats ... Here, leopards climb a tree in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve. Photograph By Beverly Joubert, National Geographic Image collection IUCN lists ...

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 ...

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 elusive cats in the wild. And at around 70,000sq miles, the UNESCO world ...