It's close to the African forest cat, Felis silvestris lybica, but its exact identity is still to be determined," Benedetti said. The cat-fox's diet, ...

A diagnosis for the Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris): A tool for conservation action for a critically-endangered felid. Animal Conservation Forum, 8 (3), 223-237. doi: 10.1017/S1367943005002301 ...

For a long time, archaeologists interpreted the many bones of small carnivores they found in early Neolithic settlements in the Levant as coming from fur hunters, but new analysis suggests they were ...

The Felis silvestris bieti subspecies, however, is found only in China, being adapted to the prey and alpine climate of the Tibetan plateau.

It was already known that the felix catus genome is not so different from the felis silvestris, but Warren did find some differences from the tiger, especially in areas of behavior.

Everything you need to know about domestic cats When were cats domesticated? Cats were domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Today's domestic cats descend from Felis silvestris lybica, a wildcat ...

Hiroyuki Sasaki—a cat enthusiast and geneticist at Kyushu University in Japan—was determined to identify the elusive gene that carries the orange mutation in Felis silvestris catus (the ...