Wild cat

The wild cat is a small predator of the cat family. Dimensions and are slightly larger than those derived from its domestic cats. Widespread in Europe before and Central Asia and Africa.

Body and is strong and keen, covered with dense hair. Its length is 45 to 80 centimeters (91), height to 43 cm, tail 29-34 cm, weight from 3 to 8 kg. Live in rocky or wooded areas and eats small mammals such as rodents and rabbits. Are known cases of assault on a young deer and goats. Prefers to hunt at night and avoid encounters with people, so are very rare and direct observation in nature.

Wild cat is a territorial animal, and as most of his relatives in the cat family, avoid the company of its kind outside the breeding season, which is twice a year (spring and autumn). After about two months pregnant females were usamotyava in a secret hollow of a tree and gave birth to three to six small, who is nursing about four months. Small are born blind and helpless, like a cat at home. Nowadays, the wild cat has become a relatively rare animal as domestic cats and people drift away from it biotopes, which traditionally inhabit.