Cat-shaped cat felidae is the most widely distributed class and is the only modern one subject can be found in the New World, including some of the most familiar, the most striking animals. Cats are the most carnivorous Carnivora in a subject, is a kind of meat-based almost exclusively on mammals, are superb hunters, members of which are often large parts of the top predators. Except Antarctica and Australia living in every continent outside. Most cats are good at concealment, with the way the ambush hunting, who are often spotted, can be integrated with the environment. Most cats now, but because these beautiful spotted and was used to make high-end fashion to capture, with habitat destruction and other reasons, so cats are a serious threat. The cats of the most important predators, especially top predators, their numbers reduced to cause greater environmental impact. Cats, both domesticated or wild, has attracted thousands of years human beings. During this time, the relationship between humans and these animals have undergone extensive changes. People once they are the same attention as a hunter, the same as worship of God, the same sacrifice as the devil, but regardless of how they survived, and remains a fascination. They are often used as a beautiful, elegant, mysterious, and a symbol of strength, many artists and writers has become a favorite theme.
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The origin of cats
Cats originated in the hunting cats like the original type, form and nature of hunting cats like cats and now a more primitive past, as a subfamily of cats, but now more as an independent hunting cats nimravidae. Hunting cats and cats generally occupy similar ecological status, are more diverse, the majority of the more developed canine teeth, some members such as the beginning of the sword tiger eusmilus developed similar saber-toothed tiger on a well-developed canines, was thick-skinned animals the main predators. After the birth of a real cat in two directions toward the development of a gradual extension of the canine, another canine tends to become small and the body more flexible. This gradual extension of the canine was classified as saber-toothed tiger only subfamily machairodontinae, which advanced the saber-toothed tiger smilodon represented. Therefore, saber-toothed tiger is probably the most striking prehistoric mammals, great size, the canines developed, may be thick-skinned animals for food, and with the reduction of pachyderms disappear. Today people they are divided into four subfamilies, namely, cheetah subfamily (acinonychinae), cat subfamily (felinae), leopard subfamily (pantheriinae), lynx subfamily (lyncinae), a total of 36 species. Fossil cats The oldest known true feline (before cat) live in the Oligocene and Eocene period. In the Eocene, it evolved into a fake cat. Fake cat is considered the existing two subfamilies and the extinct saber-toothed tigers and other subfamilies of the oldest common ancestor. Compared to saber tooth cat is known of this group of animals in the late Pleistocene extinction, which includes a saber-toothed tiger, saber-toothed tiger dagger, like fear of cats and saber-toothed tiger.
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Cats the anatomical knowledge
Head and body Serval's eyes look red in the twilight, it is because it's the lack of retinal pigment, which is the red blood vessels. Cat's teeth is not only used to attack, but also for tearing food. They have 30 teeth, of which four and then sharp curved canine teeth of the most sharp. Thus able to rely on such cats teeth grip and tearing their food or enemies. Smaller front teeth (upper incisors) is mainly used to aid bite, and their side teeth (premolars and post molars) to be less than most mammals. Most mammals are used to grind the food side of the tooth. The cats only use them to cut off the food. Legs and feet
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Big cats and small cats
Cat (small cats) refers to the cat subfamily: the pupil into a linear feature is to make a big shrink, can not roar. Small cats and big cats, the main difference is not the body, but not small cats issued a roar. Subfamily members regardless of body size, cats are good at climbing trees, some of which type of hunting is a master in the trees, such as the American long-tailed tiger cat felis wiedii (right), similar to some of the arboreal in its habits Viverridae members, some members more often on the ground activities, good running and jumping, such as the African Serval felis seval, shape resembling a small cheetah. Subfamily in the cat was undoubtedly one of the most familiar domestic cat felis sivestris, been to the world.
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Classification of cats
Cat subfamily felinae Desert cat chinese desert cat (felis bieti) Felis Black-footed cat black footed cat (felis nigripes) is a cat Asian golden cat asian golden cat (catopuma temmincki) is a Golden Cat Iriomote cat iriomote cat (prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis) leopard cat is Fish cat fishing cat (prionailurus viverrinus) ocelot is South Prairie cat pampas cat (oncifelis colocolo) grassland Felis Lineage 3: Tau Felis, hunting cats is the African Golden Cat is a
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Comparing the actual size cats
5, leopard (including the African leopard, leopard, leopard and other Far East, about 90-200cm, and weighs about 50-100kg), skill of the most beautiful big cat.
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猫科动物的分类
☆ Golden Cat is Catopuma Rabbit monkey Oreailurus manul
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猫科动物实际体型比较
猫科动物实际体型比较
3, Jaguar (Jaguar, about 110-230cm, and weighs about 90-160kg), cats in the all-around champion. It is not tiger not leopard.
