Posted on February 19, 2009 by wildtracks
We all know about tigers and lions. What few people know however, is that there are actually 37 species of wild cat in the world. Most of these cats – 28 species to be exact – are under 50 pounds. Many of them are the size of a domestic cat, or even smaller.
The rarest mammal [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2009 by wildtracks
Did You Know?
The Sumatran tiger has the greatest number of stripes of all the tiger subspecies, while the Siberian tiger has the least. Tiger stripes are like human fingerprints – you will never find two tigers with the same pattern.
There is no shortage of depressing news in the world of wild cat conservation, and the [...]
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