Talk:Chinese Mountain Cat
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Welcome to the disscussion of the Chinese Desert Cat! Please keep the subject on these animals! The discussion is about the Chinese Desert Cats, keep it that way. Interesting creatures is what this is disscussion about, in this case, the Chinese Desert Cat.
[edit] Chinese Desert Cats: In action.
Sure, you hear about them, but have you ever really seen a picture of them in action! With teeth and everything! Chinese Desert Cats are very interesting and they inhabit a small area of mountainous western China. They live up to an altitude of 10,000 feet! They have long canine teeth, and with colors varies of broken stripes of dark spots running vertically down the flanks of it's body and with similar beautiful markings on the cheeks. The tail is ringed and tipped with black. The paw pads are well-tufted and there are also short tuffs of hair on the tips of the ears.
Thank you "The Encyclopedia Of The Cat" by Micheal Pollard Copyright Parragon 1999 2003 Barnes&Noble Books for some info!
[edit] Small cat --> 80cm long?!?
I can't find an answer elsewhere to this but the article suggests it is a small cat and then goes on to say that its 80cm long +35cm of tail. I'm sure it must be 80cm including the tail, else its actually quite a considerable sized cat, considering most domestic felines are around 40cm long + tail WikipedianProlific(Talk) 01:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- Small in the Family Felidae (when compared to tigers, in other words). Speciate 03:37, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] True species or subspecies?
This Science article only looked at 5 individuals from this taxa. Depending on the method of analysis used, they are either a sister subspecies of Felis silvestris ornata or a sister species of Felis silvestris. They are quite divergent, possibly as long as 230,000 ypb. At this time I think having a redirect from Felis silvestris bieti is enough. Speciate 03:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
