Sand cats live mainly in the desert. They are mainly distributed in the arid regions of northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Central Asia and Pakistan. Sand cat is a small feline head, body length but 45-57cm. Sand cat with short legs, head width, and a pair of big exaggeration ears. Their hair is not long, but it is very dense, thick fur as they withstood the biting cold of the desert night. Sand cat's body color, mostly yellow or light gray light sandy, slightly darker color them back, the abdomen is whitish, back and limbs have some lateral transverse dark stripes or spots. Their tail is longer, more than half the length, the tail is also surrounded by some dark streaks. Sand cat's skull is wide, eyes considerably (looks like a circle of black eyeliner miles), each with a dark stripe cheeks fly into his eyes, their long nose, the nose is relatively large, which not only makes them sensitive sense of smell, it is said also helps to lock in moisture, sand cat's claws and pads is also covered with up to two centimeters long hair, sand cat not good at climbing jump, but they burrow ability is very superb. Sand cat is solitary animals, they are about to enter the annual mating season in March and April. Cat pregnancy is 60-69 days, each will be given birth to 1-5 kittens. Little ones grow very fast, 3-4 months old will be able to live independently ,9-14 months or so has sexual mature. In captivity, they can live for 13 years. Sand cat (about 40-57cm, weighing about 2-3kg), feline snake in the championship.
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Species name
Sand cat Scientific name: Felis margarita English name: Sand Cat
Distribution area is divided into five cat sand south of the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Sahara desert drought, Russia surrounding the Caspian region, southern Pakistan. Perhaps the reason people split their habitat. Sand cats live in the vast barren desert, mountains, and well adapted to the environment there. Extreme desert temperatures up to 58 degrees Celsius, the lowest reaching minus 13 degrees Celsius. And severe water shortages.
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Brief introduction
Sand Cat is one of the smallest cats, weighing only 2.3 kilograms general. Short legs, a large proportion of the head, large ears. Soft, thick fur, body color close to the color of the sand, legs banded with black stripes. Like most predators and desert sand cat pads very thick soles and bushy hair, fit them red hot surface barrier. Maximum surface temperature of 124 degrees Celsius, well above the boiling point of water. In addition to a pair of big ears, the sand cat's ear is very well developed, for they capture the small voice in the desert.
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Living habits
Sand cats are nocturnal animals, generally at night to hunt. A pair of large ears to help keep them cool, and you hear a little voice very small distance away. They prey on gerbils, lizards, insects, birds, and even poisonous snakes. Sand cat food will sometimes buried in the sand, until the time come to enjoy the food shortage. They get most of the water from food the body needs, the urinary system also try to drain the urine less, so the sand cat can be quite a long time without water.
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Breeding species
Sand cat no fixed breeding season, but the kitten was born a few fixed period of time within a year, mostly in sub-Saharan region - born April 1, April Turkmenistan, Pakistan, September and October. Estrus can last up to 46 days. Gestation period of about two months, most of the time can produce eight kittens, born weighing about 28 grams, three weeks after the birth, growth of 10 grams of body weight per day, five weeks after they began to learn from the underground mining of food, 4 month after the expulsion of 10 to 12 months of sexual maturity, life expectancy 13 years, cub mortality rate was 41%.
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Predatory habits
Sand is also a lonely cat predators, sometimes the male will help the female rearing pups. High temperatures during the day, sand cats seldom action, night hunting, and drill into the crypt at dawn. Each cat sand about 16 square kilometers of territory, the territory of the male sand cats sometimes overlap. Sand cat sounds like a house cat, hissing, Mimi sound like.
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Existential threat
, But the main threat to the sand cat predators have poison snakes, birds of prey, wild dogs, etc., or from humans. Their fur on the illicit market trading, when the attack poultry, there are likely to be caught. In Muslim areas, sand cat is treated as Muhammad colleagues and protected. Sand cats live in the desert, so their habitat has not been more serious attacks. Sand cats in Algeria, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Niger, Pakistan and Tunisia and other countries protected by law, but in Egypt, Mali, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries are allowed to hunt them.
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Subspecies
F. m harrisoni -. Arabia, Jordan F. m margarita -. Sahara (Algeria --- Arab region) . F. m scheffeli - Pakistan F. m thinobia -. Turkestan
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Body conformation
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Sand cats live mainly in the desert. They are mainly distributed in the arid regions of northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Central Asia and Pakistan. Sand Cat is also a small feline head, the body length but 45-57cm. Sand cat with short legs, head width, there is a large exaggeration ears. Their hair is not long, but very dense, thick fur as they withstood the biting cold of the desert night. Sand cat is light in color and more sandy yellow or light gray, slightly darker color them back, then whitish belly, back and lateral limbs have some dark horizontal stripes or spots. Their tail is longer, more than half the length of the tail is also surrounded by some dark streaks. Sand cat skull is wide, eyes considerable (looks like there is a circle of black eyeliner miles), each with a dark stripe cheeks fly into the eyes, nasal their long nose is relatively large, which not only makes them sensitive sense of smell, it is said also helps to lock in moisture, the sand cat's paws and pads are also covered with up to two centimeters long hair, sand cats are not good at climbing jump, but they burrow ability is superb. Sand cats are also solitary animals, they enter the mating season around March and April each year. Cat's pregnancy is 60-69 days, each gave birth to 1-5 kittens will. Little ones grow very fast, 3-4-month-old will be able to live independently ,9-14 months or so has sexual mature. In captivity, they can live 13 years. Sand cat (about 40-57cm, weighs about 2-3kg), feline snake in the championship.
