Is there only one golden cat in all of North America? I saw the solitary male at the Mountain View Conservation Centre in early 2008 and apparently there aren't many others (if any) left in the western hemisphere.
Is there only one golden cat in all of North America? I saw the solitary male at the Mountain View Conservation Centre in early 2008 and apparently there aren't many others (if any) left in the western hemisphere.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the last one, at least in U.S. and Canada. Latin America is a bit of an unknown, since most facilities there do not report to ISIS and there is always a chance of some rich guy there with a private collection. At least there are still several at zoos in Asia (some breeding) and Australia, plus a few in Europe (including France's Parc Des Felins, which I think ISIS showed having one cub last year?).
If you walk in the front door and turn immediately to the right, it was either the first or second exhibit on the right. Just before fishing cats I think.
If you walk in the front door and turn immediately to the right, it was either the first or second exhibit on the right. Just before fishing cats I think.
from what you described by saying right at the front door thats where the sand cats were, and the bobcats and the meerkats were next to the fishing cats, you do know that they made it the night hunter right?
Yes, I am talking about the old cat house lineup where the fishing cats were, not wherever they are now in the Night Hunters. In the new Night Hunters, I am not even sure if the entrance is the same place it used to be.
Yes, I am talking about the old cat house lineup where the fishing cats were, not wherever they are now in the Night Hunters. In the new Night Hunters, I am not even sure if the entrance is the same place it used to be.
@Arizona Docent I can say that there definitely haven't been and won't be any Asian golden cats found in captivity private or otherwise in Latin America.
What you are much more likely to find in a rich guys private collection (or simply as a very ill suited and sometimes ill treated pet of a middle or working class family) is one of the more cryptic and threatened wild cats from this region.
A colleague of mine runs the Brazilian centre for neotropical feline conservation and these kind of wildcats get brought in all the time rescued from the most unlikely of situations and settings.
@Onychorhynchus coronatus Thanks for the information; I was not familiar with the Brazilian center you mention. I found their English website here: English Version - Mata Ciliar
It looks like the cats they have are jaguar, puma, ocelot, jaguarundi, geoffroy's cat, oncilla/tigrina, margay, pampas cat.
