The new issue of the Feline Conservation Federation journal lists their current member holding census. The FCF, for those who do not know, is a support organization for wild cat owners and others (like myself) interested in cat conservation. This census lists the numbers of each species that are currently held by FCF members.
Please note this list does NOT include cats outside the FCF, which means most of these are NOT part of the AZA. The one that surprised me is four jaguarundis. I do know of four - 2 at Cat Haven and 2 at Exotic Feline Breeding Compound - but I know Cat Haven is not part of FCF and I am not sure about Exotic Compound. So there are at least two other and possibly four other jaguarundis somewhere in the country. There are also more leopard cats still around than I thought, which is a promising sign.
The first number is the number of individual cats and the second number (in parenthesis) is the number of facilities/individuals holding them.
Leopard - amur 6 (2), generic 147 (46)
leopard cat - amur 1 (1), generic 29 (11)
black footed cat - 11 (2)
bobcat - 205 (83)
canada lynx - 52 (30)
caracal - 63 (40)
cheetah - 11 (6)
clouded leopard - 36 (5)
cougar - 217 (66)
eurasian lynx - siberian 30 (18), generic 15 (9)
fishing cat - 10 (3)
geoffroys cat - 46 (15)
wildcat - gordons/african 4 (2)
jaguar - 13 (9)
jaguarundi - 4 (2)
jungle cat - 21 (13)
liger - 32 (14)
lion - 338 (58)
margay - 1 (1)
ocelot - 30 (12)
pallas cat - 9 (2)
sand cat - 4 (2)
serval - 307 (107)
snow leopard - 19 (4)
tiger - 1084 (73)
Please note this list does NOT include cats outside the FCF, which means most of these are NOT part of the AZA. The one that surprised me is four jaguarundis. I do know of four - 2 at Cat Haven and 2 at Exotic Feline Breeding Compound - but I know Cat Haven is not part of FCF and I am not sure about Exotic Compound. So there are at least two other and possibly four other jaguarundis somewhere in the country. There are also more leopard cats still around than I thought, which is a promising sign.
The first number is the number of individual cats and the second number (in parenthesis) is the number of facilities/individuals holding them.
Leopard - amur 6 (2), generic 147 (46)
leopard cat - amur 1 (1), generic 29 (11)
black footed cat - 11 (2)
bobcat - 205 (83)
canada lynx - 52 (30)
caracal - 63 (40)
cheetah - 11 (6)
clouded leopard - 36 (5)
cougar - 217 (66)
eurasian lynx - siberian 30 (18), generic 15 (9)
fishing cat - 10 (3)
geoffroys cat - 46 (15)
wildcat - gordons/african 4 (2)
jaguar - 13 (9)
jaguarundi - 4 (2)
jungle cat - 21 (13)
liger - 32 (14)
lion - 338 (58)
margay - 1 (1)
ocelot - 30 (12)
pallas cat - 9 (2)
sand cat - 4 (2)
serval - 307 (107)
snow leopard - 19 (4)
tiger - 1084 (73)
