All 40 Species of Wild Cat (Organised by Lineage)
All 40 Species of Wild Cat (Organised by Lineage)
Wildcats are some of the most beautiful and interesting animals on the planet. There are 40 species of wildcat separated into 8 distinct lineages providing one of the most interesting stories of evolution in the animal kingdom. The oldest split between all remaining extant species of cat occurred more than 10 million years ago when Pantherine containing the big five split from Felinae containing the rest of the felids. The Felinae family then continued to diverge until around 1-3 million years ago producing amount others, the Caracal, Ocelot, Lynx, Puma and Domestic Cat lineages. In this guide, we’ll explore each split in the Felidae family and the lineages and species of wild cats these evolutionary divergences produced.
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00:51 Panthera Lineage (inc. Lions, Tigers & Jaguars)
07:06 Puma Lineage (inc. Cougar & Cheetah)
09:46 Lynx Lineage (inc. Eurasian Lynx & Bobcat)
13:19 Caracal Lineage (inc. African Golden Cat & Serval)
15:20 Bay Cat Lineage (inc. Asian Golden Cat & Marbled Cat)
16:31 Ocelot Lineage (inc. Oncilla & Margay)
20:40 Leopard Cat Lineage (inc. Pallas’s Cat & Leopard Cat)
24:15 Domestic Cat Lineage (inc. Chinese Desert Cat & European Wildcat)
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All footage is used under licence from Storyblocks. The vast majority of the images are used under license from Shutterstock.com with a few from Pixabay & Unsplash used under their respective licences and a few from WikiCommons used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 and 3.0 licences or in the public domain. Below is a Google Doc containing each section with the photographers’ names and a link to the licence if required. Thank you to everyone who makes their work available for use. Covering all of the wonderful species in these videos would not be possible without your incredible work.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BTAZ9RUjFaN1D_zrsinRb5WJgungqhCov-lvmULQuCg/edit?usp=sharing
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Sources & Further Reading
This video is based on an article written at textbooktravel.com, below is a link to this article and all of the sources that were used to create it.
https://www.textbooktravel.com/cats/lineages-species-of-wild-cats/
Animal Diversity (Great website!)
https://animaldiversity.org/
Encyclopedia Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/animal/feline
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae
Leopards vs Jaguars
https://www.panthera.org/blog/2019/06/11/wild-cats-101-jaguars-vs-leopards
Caracal’s Ears
African Golden Cat
Where to see Canada Lynx
https://www.fillmypassport.com/find-can-help-canadian-lynx/
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ugly cats are not beautiful
Informative video well presented. No silly artificially gruff voices to try and make the video more dramatic.
I wonder… if I put an empty huge package near to lions… would say sit in it (at least the kittens)? I mean, they still cats. XD
fastest land animal in the world, not fastest animal in the world
Sand cat solos every other species of wild cats
Quite sad to hear the constant pattern of "They are endagered/threatened due to poaching and habitat loss."
Whether we like to hear it or not, the human race is a cancer to this earth. Constantly expanding at the expense of almost every other species.
As negative as this sounds, next time you see that family with 4+ kids, think again before you saying "oh wow how beautiful"
evolution is a lie! every thing brings forth after its own kind. Jesus Christ created the world and everything in it in 6 days and rested the seventh day. all the cats in the world come from the 2 cats that came off noahs ark. cats beget cats, ants beget ants, monkeys beget monkeys and humans beget humans. there are variations and varieties in a kind
I live in java and Javanese tiger it’s confirmed to be extinct but some folks in the village says that this tiger still exist nowadays and few months ago there’s a picture that confirmed to be Javanese tiger
Fun fact: Peregrine falcon is fastest animal in the world.
The creator clearly loves animals, would be even better if they didn’t use pictures taken from game farms where they are made to perform for photographers
It makes me very sad that it’s not possible to safely cuddle with large predatory cats. I know, it’s stupid, but they are so beautiful. I wish I could talk to them and get them to not murder me XD
Manul is my favourite too! ♥️
How sad that some of these cats are so rare that they can only be represented by drawings from a , presumably, pre-photographic era.
Hewan yang menakjubkan
You had me at evolution, 10 million years. Then I stopped the video
Idk why, but the Pallas’ cat does indeed look so very Russian!
You did make one mistake. The Bobcat will also eat salmon during the spawning season when salmon migrate from the Pacific Ocean to rivers streams and creeks along the North American coast. During the season Bobcats will pick off salmon in smaller creeks and streams than bears to avoid the predator. To their credit, who is going to pass up a easy meal that literally comes to them?
Look, how all cats are so gorgeous
An excellent video . Usually these videos are full of inaccuracies and false facts , but this one was pretty much spot on !
Sorry, I was too distracted by all the cute to hear much. 🥺
Gonna need a transcript.
Люблю всех кошек..🐯
У меня китка трёхцветная, обожаю её тискать..🤗
So they’re…..snow…tigers?
Floppas and Soggas are my favorites
Fear of the Black Panther .
Most powerful cat of them all is the one which live in our house turn human into theirs slave
i am so glad to say that India have 17 types of cat(highest in the world) , including Tiger (Royal bengal tiger , highest in the world❤️ ) Asiatic lions (only found in earth in gir , gujrat) and leopards all arround India and also Cheetah recently reintroduces in Kuno national park of madhya Pradesh of India
in my homeland , West Bengal , it has 9 types of cat species with fishing cat , royal Bengal tiger , snow leopard in northern part of West Bengal and also leopards in 3 different sanctuaries . it’s awesome to see so many cat on whole world ❤️
Die Every one zelf Boss You Can not say what Thay must do
me: he wont mention the andean mountain cat
me at 19:53 (despite the picture being wrong bc andean have primarily black noses and broader faces): :0!!!
How are you credit Akkoord plezier Day preve koffie
That is aa high level of taxoplasmosis devotion
Linx în Romania
I love this video… you get to learn about them while watching how cute each of cat 😍
Snow leopard cubs adorable
Why did you call it a black panther? That isn’t a thing. It’s a melanistic jaguar.
Manu Is mijn favoriete Cat for me
Pallas are the original grumpy cat 😂😂
Wow the cat population is so diverse! Thanks
My fav. big cats are Afrikaan & Snow Leopard
When I was a kid I was obsessed with cheetahs. I was waiting for the mention of the King cheetah they are also quite rare with only 2500-7500 remaining.
If I was called the Flat-headed cat I would want to go extinct too
What about the panther I thought they were huge also? 🤷🏾♂️
The Pallas cat’s ‘resting b*tch face’…never fails to make me laugh.
It’s a permanent sneer of "WTF do you WANT?"
Earth is only 6000 years old
Could you please also use mph for Speed
8:53)
Fastest LAND animal
Stuff like the sailfish and peregrine falcon are faster.
8:27 They barely look like cats…….they look more like a distant relative of cats.
The cat in the thumbnail almost looks like a monkey 😂
Interesting story: My dad had a childhood friend whose father owned two mountain lions. The friend and his sister would put motorcycle helmets and padding on and play with the mountain lions. Thankfully, no one was ever injured in the process.
Excellent informative
They should be organised by grumpiness smh