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The animals we call cats, both domestic and wild, belong to the family Felidae. They can be found roaming wild across Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America. They have adapted to a range of habitats, from tropical rainforests to the extremes of deserts and mountain ranges.Meet some of the fantastic felines found around the world.MargaA margay curled up on a tree branchMargays and ocelotslook similar. But margays are smaller cats with larger eyes and a longer tail © Ondrej Prosicky via Shutterstockhe margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a wild cat species found in Central and South America. It’s mostly seen in forested areasut will also exploit abandoned plantations and land used for agroforestry, where trees and shrubs are grown around crops and pastures.is cat is nocturnal and hunts birds, lizards and some small monkeys, as well as other mammals such as agoutis and squirrels. They mostly hunt from ground level, but also have impressive arboreal skills and will rest hgh up in trees.Margays look like ocelots, which have an overlapping range – both have brown fur with rows of dark rosette markings. But the margay is a smaller cat with a body length of about 50 centimetres. It also has a shorter head, larger eyes and a longer tail.The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists Margays as Near Threatened. These cats have long been illegally traded for their spotted fur and sometimes the exotic pet trade, but they also face the threat of habitat loss and fragmentation, roads and retaliatory killing.
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Andean mountain catAn Andean mountain cat standing on a rockCommons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Until the end of the 1990s, there were very few sightings of the Andean mountain cat (Leopardus jacobita), but recordings of this cat have increased considerably in the last twodecades.This elusive species is native to the Andes Mountains in South America, found at elevations from 650 metres to more than 4,400 metres. Its habitat is extreme: it’s arid, the temperatures can be very low and the terrain extremely steep.With a body of about 60 centimetres long, this feline is larger than a domestic cat and the pampas cat, which it is sometimes mistaken for.The Andean mountain cat predominantly eats rodents. Around 50% of its diet is made up of mountain viscachas, a long-eared rodent that looks a little like a rabbit.