It is listed as Critically Endangered in the United Kingdom and is threatened by hybridization with domestic cats. Since all individuals sampled in recent years showed high levels of …

The Kellas cat is a large black cat found in Scotland. It is an interspecific hybrid between the Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris syn. Felis silvestris grampia) and the domestic cat …

With potentially as few as 100-300 wildcats left in the wild in Scotland, they urgently need our help. We can use morphological features – such as fur pattern – to try and score ‘wildcat …

Nov 6, 2023 · Today, the genome of the Scottish wildcat is so “swamped” with domestic cat DNA that the animal is “genomically extinct,” the authors conclude. All that’s left in nature is a …

From the background information on wildcat ecology to a summary of the current approaches in conservation, this book presents the key issues facing our only native cat species. The main …

Spatial ecology of the Scottish wildcat, domestic cat and hybrids. The Scottish wildcat is threatened by introgression with the domestic cat. Introgression is the gene flow between two …

Hybridisation results in Scottish wildcats that behave increasingly like domestics, tending towards over-population and hunting what would otherwise be non-target species, as well as the …

May 3, 2023 · The Scottish wildcat population is on the brink of extinction with most wild-living cats now hybrids, according to new research.

The Scottish wildcat, Felis silvestris, is currently endangered owing to a variety of factors including hybridisation with and disease transmission from the feral cat, F. catus , habitat loss and …

Mar 9, 2024 · What makes recognizing a Scottish wildcat from a domestic cat difficult is that you may come across a hybrid of the two… Scottish wildcats and domestic cats can successfully …