Tabby Cat
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
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Cat - name applied broadly to the carnivorous mammals constituting the family Felidae, and specifically to the domestic cat, Felis catus.
According to these observations, two distinct types of so-called tabby cats are recognizable.
The African Wild Cat is similar in appearance to the domestic tabby cat but is slightly larger, being around 90cm in length, 35cm high at the shoulder, and weighing between 4 and 5 Kg.
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The wild cat was once common over most of the British Isles, but it is now only found in Scotland. Although it looks very much like a domestic tabby cat, it is very fierce and almost impossible to tame, even if brought up from a tiny kitten.
Later this domesticated wild cat was crossed, in western Europe, with the European subspecies of the Wildcat (Felis sylvestris sylvestris) Crosses between these two subspecies of wild cat produce a tabby cat that does not look at all like either of ...
Once my husband got up there later in the day he walked up the stream and found the remains of a squirrel entirely eaten except the tail and one hind leg just the same as my large tabby cat finishes them off when he's able to snag one.
 See also: Domestic cat, Lion, Wild cat, Tiger, Leopard
  
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