Forbes: House Cats Are Overpowering Scottish Wildcats In The Battle For Survival
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The critically endangered Scottish wildcat is an elusive ...
Despite living alongside house cats for more than 2,000 years, Scottish wildcats ignored the felines as potential breeding partners for centuries. But in just the last 70 or so years, the two groups ...
In a remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, researchers are about to see what happens when cats go wild. In June, the first captive-bred European wildcats (Felis silvestris) fitted with GPS-tracking ...
In the wilds of Scotland lives the elusive Scottish wildcat, denoted scientifically as Felis silvestris grampia and colloquially as the “Highland tiger.” Considered as one of the planet’s most ...
WRAL: Scottish wildcats bred in captivity released to the wild in a bid to save the species from extinction
(CNN) — Young captive-bred wildcats were set free in the Scottish Highlands last week – the first release of its kind in Britain. The cats were bred and released by Saving Wildcats, a European project ...
Scottish wildcats bred in captivity released to the wild in a bid to save the species from extinction