Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
3,909,253,154 visitors served.
forum Join the Word of the Day Mailing List For webmasters
?
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

Jungle Cat
(redirected from Jungle cats)

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Wikipedia 0.01 sec.
jungle cat: see lynx lynx, name given to several related small, ferocious members of the cat family. All have small heads, tufted ears, and heavy bodies with long legs and short tails. All are primarily terrestrial, although they are able to climb trees.
..... Click the link for more information.
.
Jungle Cat 

(Felis chaus), a predatory mammal of the family Felidae. The body is up to 80 cm long; the tail, up to 30 cm. Jungle cats live in dense thickets along the river valleys of northeastern Africa and southwestern and southeastern Asia. In the USSR they are found in the Volga delta, on the western coast of the Caspian Sea, and in the river valleys of Middle Asia. They live in dense thickets of rushes, sedges, and cattails. Because it kills game animals and game birds, the jungle cat does damage in some places to hunting.



Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Feedback
Mentioned in?  References in periodicals archive?   Encyclopedia browser?   Full browser?
No references found
 
Aside from the Royal Bengali Tiger, there are also some animals present in the area including fishing cats, wild boars, macaques, foxes and jungle cats as well as common grey mongoose, chital and flying foxes as well as pangolins.
About two dozen big cats were released into the countryside when the Dangerous Animals Act was passed in 1976, including a panther, pumas, a lynx, caracals, ocelots and jungle cats.
There is a suggestion that we could be seeing second or third-generation hybrids of jungle cats which have mated with native domestic felines.
 
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Terms of Use | Privacy policy | Feedback | Advertise with Us | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc.
Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.