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Small truly 'wild' cats worldwide are threatened with extinction

There are the small number of truly wild-born cats -- from tigers, the world's largest, to the rusty-spotted cat, the world's ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel

“Is Our Cat Jewish?” — The Journey to the Rare Kanaani Cat on the Edge of Extinction

In the 1990s, an Israeli architect and artist named Doris Polaczek rescued a wild desert cat and paired him with a local ...
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Giant sloths and sabertooth cats : extinct mammals and the archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin / Donald K. Grayson ; with animal reconstructions by Wally Woolfenden

Sloth in prison -- The Great Basin now and then -- A zoologically impoverished world -- Dating an ass -- A stable of ground sloths -- Extinct mammals, dangerous plants, and the early peoples of the ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Big cats may be extinct in small county after mauling death

HENNEPIN, Ill. -- Lions, tigers and other big cats could soon be extinct in this small central Illinois county in the wake of this week's mauling death of a rural Hennepin animal keeper. A lion, tiger ...

Warming peaks, weak genes: Snow leopards face extinction risk as climate change and low genetic diversity collide

Researchers found that the species has the lowest genetic diversity among all big cats. The team studied 41 leopards from 12 ...

Why snow leopards are in danger of extinction

Survival of snow leopard populations could be "precarious" in the future due to the way the elusive mountain cats have evolved, scientists recently discovered. Snow leopards have low genetic diversity ...