An Arabian sand cat in Ree Park - Ebeltoft Safari, Denmark. The sand cats here came from a private zoo in Quatar. In January 2009 4.4 cats lived here.
July 2007
An Arabian sand cat in Ree Park - Ebeltoft Safari, Denmark. The sand cats here came from a private zoo in Quatar. In January 2009 4.4 cats lived here.
July 2007
Sand cats in the wild are solitary and males and females only meet in the breeding season (march-april). But I asume that they, like a lot of other animals (tigers etc.), can get used to living in pairs in Ree Park. I am not sure how they do it in Ree Park, but they have three exhibits viewable for the visitors.
I once read an article (or more like a summary) about this, how solitary small cats are affected by living in a pair or a group in captivity. The species studied there was Sand cats and Pallas' cats.
I started to look for it again when I found this discussion and I found it. Read it here: http://www.eaza.net/magazine/download/62_Sandcat.pdf
To sum it up; the sand cats studied could cope quite well with the situation of a social group living (only one group were studied though!).
