Around 1.6 million years ago, the saber-tooth tiger, Smilodon, was found in fossil records discovered in the La Brea tar pits in California. These big cats became extinct around 10,000 years ago. The oldest lynx remains, approximately four million years old, were found in Africa. The ...
Even the color of the hair is subject to great variability, with shades from gray to reddish, more or less dark with a spotted pattern that varies according to the subspecies: large, grayish with small and shaded spots (in northern-eastern subspecies) to reddish with well-marked dark ...
The Bobcat is also known as the Red Lynx due to the fact that the two are very similar in appearance but the Bobcat tends to be much darker and richer in color than their northern relatives. They are incredibly secretive yet powerful animals that are able to pounce on their prey from ...
First report of "Candidatus Rickettsia amblyommii" in west coast of Mexico Ticks Tick Borne Dis. (2016) N. Stephenson et al. Diversity of rickettsiae in a rural community in northern California Ticks Tick Borne Dis. (2017) R. Witter et al. Rickettsial infection in ticks (Acari: ixodidae)...
My cattery is in Northern California. It’s a very small home-based cattery that I started after retirement. I wanted to show a cat as a pastime and have the love and companionship of a beautiful cat. I’ve always been fond of the British Shorthair breed since I was a child. When ...
Canada lynx have been hunted and trapped for their fur for hundreds of years, but the levels of northern populations have remained fairly stable over time. Southern populations, especially those in the conterminous United States, are threatened byhabitat lossand fragmentation from logging and agricultu...