The document provides information on various cat breeds from around the world. It discusses the origins and characteristics of breeds such as the Turkish Angora, Scottish Fold, Siberian cat, and Singapura. A wide range of natural, hybrid and experimental cat breeds are described in detail.

1. By: Mark Lloyd M. Delas Alas
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2. mother lion begins to teach them to
The Lion lives in Africa. Thehunt. A Lion cub has all it's teeth
male lion is larger than the female.when it is three months old.
Only the male has a mane of long
hair. Lions have very strong jaws.
They can kill a zebra or an antelope
with one sharp bite. They are very
fast and can jump long distances.
Lions sleep as much as nineteen hours
a day. When the sun sets, they hunt
for food. Often lions hunt in groups
of four or eight. A mother lion has
from two to four babies, called cubs.
At birth, their fur is spotted. Cubs
drink their mother's milk. Baby lions
are very playful. When the babies
are one-and-one-half years old, the

3. tigers, The Siberian Tiger, and The
Tigers live in jungle swamps orBengal Tiger.
tall grasses of Asia. One kind lives in
Siberia. Tigers are stronger and larger
than lions. They are very smart and
brave. They hunt for food at night.
Only when a tiger is very hungry will it
look for food when it is light. Tigers
can swim and climb trees when they
have to. They can also jump as high as
fifteen feet. The tiger often hunts
alone. A mother tiger has from three
to five cubs or kittens. She takes good
care of them. They stay close to their
mother and drink her milk. Cubs stay
with their mother for about two years.
They are full grown when they are four
years old. There are two types of

4. leopard,
Leopards live in theLeopards
forests of Asia and Africa.
They are very fast runners,
good tree climbers, and good
jumpers. Leopards hunt at
night. The mother leopard
has from two to four cubs or
kittens. She teaches them
to hunt and to watch out for
enemies. Leopards are full
grown when they are three
years old. One kind of
is
the
Snow

5. on a tree.
The Cheetah is also
called the hunting leopard. It is
so easy to tame that hunters
can train it to catch animals for
them. The Cheetah is tall with
long legs. It can run as fast as
seventy miles an hour for short
distances. Cheetahs can jump
as high as twenty feet. They
are found in Asia and Africa.
Cheetahs hunt in pairs or in
small groups. Before hunting,
they always sharpen their claws

6. The Jaguar is found in the wilds of
Mexico and South America. In many ways, The
Jaguar looks like a Leopard. It, Too, is light
yellow with dark, circlelike spots. Jaguars hunt
wild animals on the ground. They also go into
water to catch fish, turtles, and water snakes.
They will climb trees when they are hungry. The
mother jaguar has two to four cubs. The father
jaguar looks looks after the babies while the
mother hunts for food.

7. Canada Lynx.
The Lynx has a
thick coat of fur.
Snowshoe Rabbits are
it's favorite food. But
when it is hungry it
will
eat
squirrels,
mice, foxes, and other
small
animals.
One
kind of Lynx, Is The

8. food.
Pumas are found in
South America
and North
America. Pumas are also called
mountain lions, cougars, and
sometimes even panthers. The
mother has two to four kittens
who are born with dark spots
over their fur. These spots go
away as the cubs grow older.
Cubs stay with their mother
until they are about two years
old and can hunt for their own

9. to find
Ocelots live in theanimals.
forests of North and South
America. Ocelots have dark
markings on their heads,
necks, and bodies. They look
so much like small tigers
that they have at times
been called leopard or tiger
cats. Ocelots eat rats, mice,
snakes, lizards, and other
small animals. When very
hungry they may climb trees
birds,
and
other

10. birds and other small birds
Bobcats are found in
North America. They are
shy animals and are not seen
often. The color of the fur
of these wild cats differs in
different
parts
of
the
country. Swamps, Forests,
Deserts, and Mountains are
home to the Bobcats. They
are good hunters. Rabbits
are their favorite food, but
they can climb trees to get

11. CARACAL
The
caracal,
also
known as the desert
lynx, is a wild cat that
is widely distributed
across Africa, central
Asia and southwest
Asia into India. In
2002 the IUCN listed
the caracal as Least
Concern
as
it
is
widespread
relatively common
and

12. COUGARS
The
cougar,
also
known
as
the
mountain lion, puma,
panther,
mountain
cat, or catamount, is
a large cat of the
family Felidae native
to the Americas.

13. jaguarundi
(Pumaprobably extinct in Texas. Its
yagouaroundi syn. Herpailuruspresence in Uruguay is uncertain
yagouaroundi), also called eyra
cat,
is
a
small-sized
wildcat
native
to Centrall and South America.
In 2002, the IUCN classified
the
jaguarundi
as
‘Least
Concern',
although
they
considered it likely that no
conservation units beyond the
megareserves of the Amazon
basin could sustain long-term
viable
populations.
It
is
The

14. remote sections of the
rainforest.
The
Margay
is
a
spotted cat native to
the Americas. Named
after
Prince
Maximilian of WiedNeuwied,
it
is
a
solitary and nocturnal
animal that prefers

15. adjoining
The
kodkod,
alsoArgentina
called guiña, is the
smallest cat in the
Americas and also has
the
smallest
distribution,
being
found
primarily
in
central and southern
Chile and marginally in
areas
of

16. The York Chocolate
Cat
is
a
new
American breed of
show cat, with a
long, fluffy coat
and a plumed tail.

17. and its breed status is
The breed is rare evenunclear.
in its native Russia. A
translated
breed
standard for this and
other native breeds
was published in the
mid
1990s,
but
nothing
has
been
heard since that time

18. The Turkish Van is a rare,
naturally occurring breed
of cat from the Lake Van
region
of
present-day
Turkey. For Turkish Vans,
the word van refers to
their color pattern, where
the color is restricted to
the head and the tail, and
the rest of the cat is
white.

19. Like all domestic cats,
Turkish
Angoras
descended
from
the
African
wildcat
(Felis
silvestris
lybica).
The
mountainous
regions
of
Eastern Anatolia isolated
cats brought by traders
from Egypt

20. The Toyger is a breed of
cat,
the
result
of
breeding
domestic
shorthaired
tabbies
(beginning in the 1980s) to
make them resemble the
'toy tiger' as its striped
coat is reminiscent of the
tiger's.

21. describes
a
coat
coloring
found
almost
exclusively
in
female
cats.
Also
called Torties for short,
they combine two colors
other than white, either
closely mixed or in large
patches

22. Tonkinese cats are a recent
cross between the Siamese
and Burmese cat breeds,
although some assert that
Tonkinese-like
cats
have
existed since at least the
early
1800s,
and
the
founding cat of the Burmese
breed was probably a mink
hybrid-colored cat named
"Wong Mau.

23. also known as the little
spotted
cat,
tigrillo,
or tiger cat, is a small
spotted felid found in
the
tropical
rainforest of Central andS
outh America

24. are small.
The Stone Cougar is a
jungle
cat hybrid developed by
Mandal Exotic Cats to
resemble
the
American
cougar.
In
addition to the cougar-like
color, the body is thick
and low to the ground, the
tail is thick and the ears

25. Is a more recently
developed natural breed
of field hybrid domestic
cats, recognized by two
major
cat
pedigree
registration office as
a formal cat breed.

26. is a rare breed of cat
originating in the United
States of America in the
1960s. Snowshoes were
first
produced
in
Phialdelphia
when
a Siamese breeder's cat
gave
birth
to
three
kittens with white feet.

27. Smoke cats will look solid
coloured until they move,
when the white undercoat
becomes apparent. It is
mostly found in pedigreed
cats (especially longhair
breeds) but also present in
some domestic longhaired
cats.

28. The
Skookum
was
developed
from
crosses
between
Munckins and LaPerms
with
the
aim
of
creating
a
short
legged cat with a curly
coat.

29. While Siberians are a
fairly recent introduction
to the US(1990) and thus
relatively
rare,
though
popular, the breed can be
seen in Russian paintings
and writings hundreds of
years old.

30. The original home of
the Singapura is the
island of Singapore,
with the breed taking
its name from the local
Malay name for the
island — meaning 'Lion
City'.

31. is a breed of domestic cat,
first developed by crossing
a Bengal (domestic and
wild hybrid) and an .
Oriental Shorthair

32. The Selkirk Rex
originated
in
Montana, America in
1987, with a litter
born to a rescued cat.

33. The original Scottish Fold
was a long-haired whitehaired barn cat named
Susie, who was found at a
farm near Coupar Angus in
Perthshire, Scotland in
1961. Susie's ears had an
unusual fold in their
middle,

34. is
a domestic hybrid
cat breed. It is a
cross
between
a several and a
domestic cat.