Scottish ‘Highland Tiger’ wildcat more endangered than Asian cousin - BBC

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  • @2high83
    @2high83 3 года назад +266

    I'm 95% sure I had one of these cats a a pet in the 90s. Most people were scared of him, our dog was scared of him & other cats never seemed to give him any hassle. Both of the local vets thought he was a Scottish Wildcat & both were extremely reluctant to touch him.

    • @Josh_J91
      @Josh_J91 3 года назад +13

      I had one in the 90s aswell hahaha

    • @2high83
      @2high83 2 года назад +31

      @Dutch Van Der Linde Yes, as long as we didn’t stoke/pet him. We were only really allowed to do that when he came to us, otherwise he’d bite. He was happy to live in the same house as us, basically.

    • @jjr1728
      @jjr1728 2 года назад +6

      @@2high83 pics or it didn't happen

    • @2high83
      @2high83 2 года назад +4

      @@jjr1728 😂😂😂

    • @garywalling4341
      @garywalling4341 2 года назад +23

      My mothers cousin, Rosalyn, had a hybrid, it was mental, she found it by the side of the road on a trip to visit family in Scotland. She brought it back here to the Lake district. It lived under an old armchair (which it would only let Rosalyn sit on) by the fire. Only came out to eat and toilet and when it did we were mortified, we used to run and hide in other rooms. If it was a wild cat you'd be 100% sure. Even this hybrid was fearsome and unpredictable honestly I'd rather of been in a pool with a great white than confined with that beastie.

  • @Pendragon981
    @Pendragon981 3 года назад +163

    Beautiful cats, must protect them. I think that our purpose as mankind is not to dominate the animal kingdom but rather to be guardians, keeping their environments from decay and ruin.

    • @CC-vv2ne
      @CC-vv2ne 3 года назад +3

      Funny how you are all for protecting such cats, but at same times do the opposite thing to endangered human species that get wiped out by inbreeding with other races.

    • @rajbhattacharya4427
      @rajbhattacharya4427 3 года назад +5

      All we need to do is just leave nature alone. We don't have to mess with it or guard it. Just leave it alone and it will be fine.

    • @K-Viz
      @K-Viz 3 года назад +3

      @@CC-vv2ne There's only one human species bro. GTFO with dat racism.

    • @CC-vv2ne
      @CC-vv2ne 3 года назад +2

      @@K-Viz And there is only one Cat race and one Dog race, yet you acknowledge that genetics matter and behaviour gets inherited

    • @joshvarges9230
      @joshvarges9230 3 года назад +1

      @@CC-vv2ne you cant reduce humankind to simple animals

  • @aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418
    @aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418 4 года назад +46

    Everything possible must be done to save these beautiful, fascinating and magical little beings. The Scottish wildcats. 💞

  • @Keyhan-c8c
    @Keyhan-c8c 4 года назад +92

    Its so beautiful !pls protect them 😍
    Greetings from Iran

  • @llt8101
    @llt8101 4 года назад +18

    Cats are so beautiful! All of them.

    • @TobiBabalola-u3v
      @TobiBabalola-u3v 4 месяца назад

      Also the domestic cat caracal lynx bobcat and serval

  • @tuantanah9076
    @tuantanah9076 3 года назад +10

    Such a beautiful animal!

  • @dee2140
    @dee2140 4 года назад +28

    I hope this is successful. It would be such a shame to lose them, especially when they’ve been around for so long.

  • @valumtimes
    @valumtimes 2 года назад +18

    These wild cats are absolutely beautiful, and I wish all conservation efforts the best.
    However. Their faces look like hilariously grumpy cartoon cats, and that really cracks me up.

    • @Kingsaxxy3872
      @Kingsaxxy3872 Год назад +1

      Well they’re Scottish so it makes sense

  • @nelsonclub7722
    @nelsonclub7722 4 года назад +123

    Here, kitty, kitty, here...O M G R U N

    • @javierhillier4252
      @javierhillier4252 4 года назад +5

      Mum its go the baby.
      Just run forget the baby

    • @Dreamspawn1978
      @Dreamspawn1978 2 года назад +5

      I mean you have nothing to fear from them as long as you remeber the code, respect and distance.
      They will come to you if they choose not the other way around.
      And even if they do you must always remeber they are not domestic cats but wild animals like foxes or wolves.

    • @taraelizabethdensley9475
      @taraelizabethdensley9475 2 года назад +1

      Lmao 🤣

    • @AnnaPxx
      @AnnaPxx 2 года назад +2

      😂😂😂

  • @a.b4714
    @a.b4714 4 года назад +70

    These cats are so important to Scottish people and are a big part of our culture. If they go extinct this would be a huge loss for Scotland.

    • @Assdafflabaff
      @Assdafflabaff 2 года назад +8

      You care so much about Scottish cats interbreeding and diluting their gene pool, perhaps you should pay more attention to Scottish PEOPLE doing the same thing.

    • @SoLuVaBle299
      @SoLuVaBle299 2 года назад

      Hi, American here, why are these cats so important to the culture/ecosystem? I was hoping they would explain in the video.

    • @cursedlemon7368
      @cursedlemon7368 2 года назад +7

      @@SoLuVaBle299 because you need an equal balance of prey and predators for wood webs to work

    • @renlevy411
      @renlevy411 2 года назад

      @@AssdafflabaffYou know, we are all Homo Sapien. I wish mayocide is real.

    • @MewmewGrrl
      @MewmewGrrl 2 года назад +3

      The pure breed will go extinct, there just are too few of them and the fact that they breed with housecats, and there are 4,000 hybrids out there that they breed with and under 50 pure Wildcats. If a huge capture and spay / neuter release program happened, it would be expensive and need a lot of people involved, they could possibly cut down on the hybrid breeding cats. It's very noble to try and save them and I wish people luck, but it just seems too late considering that they breed with housecats and all the hybrids out there.
      In a way, their DNA will live on through those hybrids at least. So it won't be like they're completely gone. Some of them lives on in the hybrids. It's not optimal by any means, but sure better than having them hunted and killed to extinction. A piece of them will continue.
      If they didn't breed with houscats and hybrids, there would be a chance to bump the population. The only other way to do it would be to find some enormous island out there that doesn't already have cats and bring only the pure Scottish Wildcat to the island. You ever hear of those Cat Islands that didn't used to have cats and are now overpopulated with them? :P It's not totally serious, but in a way having them on an isolated island without other cats would be the only way to grow the pure population.
      I'm not saying to give up, I love that people are trying, but I do also think they're basically lost already. Some kind of captive or isolated breeding programs are the only way to keep the pure Wildcat alive at this point. Anywhere that doesn't have cats that wants a cool little cat species running around? :D

  • @sophiakugler9760
    @sophiakugler9760 4 года назад +47

    learning something everyday! didn't even think of that wild cats like this existed

  • @bispybristol
    @bispybristol 4 года назад +485

    No, that’s my cat Dave. Give him back.

  • @ghostqueen2082
    @ghostqueen2082 4 года назад +23

    Well done Hamish what a good mancat you are

  • @taraelizabethdensley9475
    @taraelizabethdensley9475 2 года назад +4

    Such a beautiful wild cat

  • @kevinprior3549
    @kevinprior3549 4 года назад +4

    What beautiful animals

  • @MRJAYDANGEROUS
    @MRJAYDANGEROUS 2 года назад +8

    I'm 34 and only just found about Scottish wild cats
    I live in Wales
    Shame they're not here because like Scotland
    We've got beautiful Hills and forest's they would love

    • @stonemarten1400
      @stonemarten1400 Год назад +3

      Wildcats used to found in Wales and you certainly have the remote habitat to suit a reintroduction.

    • @Kingsaxxy3872
      @Kingsaxxy3872 Год назад +1

      Wildcats actually we’re found in Wales and England! But i think during the Victorian age they were heavily hunted for fear of farms being raided, thankfully enough they managed to continue living in Scotland though they still do have issues.

    • @stevenbarclay7850
      @stevenbarclay7850 10 месяцев назад

      I am from Scotland and it would be good for the scottish wild cat to be introduced to the Welsh forests and hills as it once was

    • @BarkingLondon
      @BarkingLondon 7 месяцев назад

      Might be a few wildcats of sorts out there. More likely Lynx’s.

  • @muffi04
    @muffi04 3 года назад +4

    Beautiful cat!

  • @AshishKumar-up8cx
    @AshishKumar-up8cx 4 года назад +23

    That summons it all, " he is a character".

  • @bigbagofcanswiththelads2638
    @bigbagofcanswiththelads2638 2 года назад +1

    I love this cat

  • @annajansson7906
    @annajansson7906 4 года назад +6

    Beautiful animals. 💕

  • @Disclaips
    @Disclaips 4 года назад +2

    Magnificent creature

  • @cats-uk
    @cats-uk 4 года назад +7

    How interesting. What a lovely wild cat

    • @poolpoolification
      @poolpoolification 4 года назад

      freid cat, and china , a delicoiuos dish in bejing restraunts, a la cat 69.95

  • @rayarena879
    @rayarena879 4 года назад +25

    Wow, look at those canine teeth! Longer than a regular housecat's canines!

    • @Kingsaxxy3872
      @Kingsaxxy3872 Год назад +2

      Aye because they remained wild so needed to have bigger teeth to kill Deer Calfs and other animals.

    • @BarkingLondon
      @BarkingLondon 7 месяцев назад

      3 inch canine teeth on males.

  • @rusedeee
    @rusedeee 4 года назад +223

    Will it still come if i psstpsstpsst?

    • @mousewith0subscribers398
      @mousewith0subscribers398 4 года назад +3

      Ahahhahah u came here from that robin guy? No thats kskskskskskska

    • @user-sk8dr6zt2q
      @user-sk8dr6zt2q 4 года назад

      Not a good ideia, bro don't mess with the kitty

    • @benluke7697
      @benluke7697 3 года назад +1

      😂😂😂

    • @anasevi9456
      @anasevi9456 3 года назад +1

      nope. European and Asiatic wildcats completely lack the genetic disposition for domestication. Many people have tried in the past and even when raised from small kittens, found them utterly impossible, untamed. And not just in a 'no no bad kitty way'. lol
      It's pretty much agreed that all domesticated cats are descended from wildcat species from the middle east/norteast africa.

    • @jhibberd6290
      @jhibberd6290 3 года назад

      No. It will run away.

  • @heatleynoble
    @heatleynoble 4 года назад +6

    Lovely to see unique genetics celebrated.

  • @sophitsa79
    @sophitsa79 4 года назад +11

    I'm sure it's a ferocious wild cat, but he's also a cutie-pie kitty cat with a love heart nose. He's stocky like my Sir Lottie

  • @farmeresscherrylanford3539
    @farmeresscherrylanford3539 4 года назад +5

    OMG, so beautiful, so cool. Douglas I love you for this.

  • @008boot6
    @008boot6 4 года назад +1

    Mashallah. Such an amazing creature.

  • @M24071
    @M24071 4 года назад +2

    awwwwwww what a cutie

  • @blessingdawn6660
    @blessingdawn6660 4 года назад +102

    Protect and save all kinds of cat , stop hunting them for nothing...

    • @prestons3400
      @prestons3400 3 года назад +2

      I support hunting for feral cat hunting in Australia

    • @leonalexios7392
      @leonalexios7392 3 года назад +1

      @@prestons3400 then you are killer

    • @prestons3400
      @prestons3400 3 года назад +1

      @@leonalexios7392 how

    • @nooneinparticular9837
      @nooneinparticular9837 3 года назад +3

      @@leonalexios7392 house cats actually damage the enviroment quite a bit. They kill birds at an alarming rate because there are so many of them.

    • @nooneinparticular9837
      @nooneinparticular9837 3 года назад +1

      I'm not sure the cat above is even hunted, it's just that it doesn't have any room anymore. Same with the alpine-eagle which had it's origenall home all over germany but fled to the mountains after humans took over.

  • @theotheseaeagle
    @theotheseaeagle 2 года назад +15

    It’s also important to encourage locals to spay and neuter their outdoor cats if they are nearby to a Scottish wildcat population

  • @GameArchiver
    @GameArchiver 4 года назад +4

    They're so cute!

  • @bethelteshuwah9824
    @bethelteshuwah9824 Год назад

    They have very sharp teeth and claws!

  • @terrydodson9884
    @terrydodson9884 4 года назад +29

    I thought I knew a lot about animals but I didn’t know about these cats

    • @colinharbinson8284
      @colinharbinson8284 4 года назад +1

      Gavin Maxwell, Author of 'Ring of Bright Water' mentioned having a Wild cat kitten, which is the first time I had heard of them.

    • @ia8018
      @ia8018 4 года назад +1

      They're almost extinct already.

  • @isabelleb-l2699
    @isabelleb-l2699 4 года назад +4

    He’s a good papa

  • @Spicystachegamer
    @Spicystachegamer 4 года назад +1

    Ferocious

  • @eleveneleven572
    @eleveneleven572 3 года назад +6

    I used to live near Catshill in Worcestershire which according to local history got its name from the number of wildcats that lived in the surrounding hills and forests in the Middle Ages.

    • @stonemarten1400
      @stonemarten1400 Год назад +1

      Yes, wildcats were once widespread across Mainland Britain, not just Scotland.

  • @shanjanusman9974
    @shanjanusman9974 4 года назад +2

    Beautiful little kitty 😺

  • @yurachunt3179
    @yurachunt3179 4 года назад +2

    _terrifying creatures_

  • @Darkhan1nonly
    @Darkhan1nonly 4 года назад +6

    Still cute af

  • @ufodominicano8506
    @ufodominicano8506 4 года назад +2

    Beautiful cat

  • @sfleur962
    @sfleur962 4 года назад +81

    Scotland has it all : the most stunning landscapes, sexiest men and most beautiful wild cats!
    These little guys are just Soooooooo beautiful!! They must be saved and reintroduced in the wild!

    • @MAUROSILVA6
      @MAUROSILVA6 4 года назад

      Eww

    • @ce1834
      @ce1834 4 года назад +11

      "sexiest men" 🤢

    • @poolpoolification
      @poolpoolification 4 года назад

      @Rocco Hilly are these going to china for thier dinner?

    • @Spicystachegamer
      @Spicystachegamer 4 года назад

      You talking about tge kilts

    • @truefalse207
      @truefalse207 4 года назад +4

      @@ce1834 Umm Gerard Butler, James McAvoy, Richard Madden, Sam Heughan, Ewan MacGregor, Calvin Harris and voted most sexiest man of the last century... Sean Connery.

  • @natashacoulter4328
    @natashacoulter4328 3 года назад +1

    they need protecting

  • @craigewing4097
    @craigewing4097 3 года назад +1

    i've had the rare and somewhat terrifying experiance with one of these in the wild. they are stunning. but will tear your throat out given the chance.

  • @happytv9199
    @happytv9199 4 года назад +11

    Oh, looks like normal cat,
    Beautiful ❤️💕❤️

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 4 года назад +3

      Looks like a normal cat. Breeds with a normal cat. Definitely not a normal cat. Apparently.

    • @g_g...
      @g_g... 4 года назад

      @@weswheel4834 a normal cat is a cat most viewed by human society not the wild one. That is what he meant

    • @darkcognitive
      @darkcognitive 4 года назад +6

      @@weswheel4834 If you seen one you would definitely know the difference. They are bigger and stronger than normal cats, have slightly bigger teeth, and certainly have a menacing air about them when you get close to one.

    • @isobelmiddleton6353
      @isobelmiddleton6353 4 года назад +1

      @@darkcognitive you wouldn't get close to one.

    • @darkcognitive
      @darkcognitive 4 года назад

      @@isobelmiddleton6353 I’ve been close to them many times at the Highland wildlife park.

  • @markholroyde9412
    @markholroyde9412 3 года назад

    Wow, a thing of beauty, fabulous,

  • @greengrass9572
    @greengrass9572 4 года назад +5

    In Britain we also had the wild British Lynx, sadly hunted by man to extinction 400 years ago.

    • @blademanx
      @blademanx 4 года назад +2

      can be reintroduced.

    • @davekp6773
      @davekp6773 4 года назад +3

      Blade ManX Really would love to see a reintroduction of the Lynx. Sadly the farming industry is concerned their sheep will be targeted. I did read though that farmers can get Llamas which will discourage Lynxes from attacking sheep.

  • @bambijery3645
    @bambijery3645 4 года назад +3

    OMG, he's so cuteee

    • @poolpoolification
      @poolpoolification 4 года назад

      throw a cat on the barbi in china! damn ,... stop eating cats and dogs china!

    • @alancanham2956
      @alancanham2956 4 года назад

      Bambi Jerry, Just like you then xx

    • @clara-aaliyahogarro5079
      @clara-aaliyahogarro5079 3 года назад

      @@poolpoolification wtf??? no need to be racist.

    • @poolpoolification
      @poolpoolification 3 года назад

      @@clara-aaliyahogarro5079 that is not a racist statement- The chinese eat cats as a staple- dogs too- do you have covid ? That is not racist- I have no ill will toward any races! Learn what the word racist means..ok? It is a discrimination of a race- I made a stATEMENT ABOUT A GROUP OF FOLKS THAT EAT CATS. this is a fact NOT A RACIST STATEMENT

    • @clara-aaliyahogarro5079
      @clara-aaliyahogarro5079 3 года назад

      @@poolpoolification babe i’m black. i know what racist means... the korean people are the ones that eat cats and dogs, & u are assuming that she is korean... if u aren’t being racist u are stereotyping?

  • @margaritamilot6668
    @margaritamilot6668 4 года назад

    Thank you!

  • @usmanwadud8513
    @usmanwadud8513 2 года назад +2

    Job advertisement, "Wanted, a male Scottish Wild Cat. Food and accommodation are free; only responsibility is to breed. Mates shall be provided."

    • @AnnaPxx
      @AnnaPxx 2 года назад

      Living the male dream 😂😂😂

    • @usmanwadud8513
      @usmanwadud8513 2 года назад

      @@AnnaPxx Hahaha. Some cats have all the luck.

  • @plumduffy334
    @plumduffy334 3 года назад +5

    The Scottish Wildcat the hardest cat in the world.

    • @stonemarten1400
      @stonemarten1400 Год назад +1

      Not sure you’d want to pick-up and stroke one of these kittys!

  • @uwaisahmad8540
    @uwaisahmad8540 4 года назад +2

    the most cute killer ever lived

    • @jewelmarkess
      @jewelmarkess 4 года назад

      Very cute, but look up videos of Black-footed cat which has higher hunting success rate than any cat yet is no bigger than a domestic 3 month old kitten.

  • @bobmitchell3653
    @bobmitchell3653 11 месяцев назад +1

    My dad's friend while working uo in Scotland on a construction site took in a stray kitten and fed it and brought the kitten back from Scotland in the 1950s thinking it was a normal stray cat ! It turned out to be a mountain cat and thankfully a zoo took the cat in .

  • @Josh_J91
    @Josh_J91 3 года назад +9

    Looking back on photos of it im 99 percent sure i had one of these living in Manchester it lived till 18 (1996-2014) i always thought it looked differnt and i would attack me when i ran past her on the stairs hahahaha but was a gorgeous thing

    • @garywalling4341
      @garywalling4341 2 года назад +2

      My mothers cousin, Rosalyn, had a hybrid, it was mental, she found it by the side of the road on a trip to visit family in Scotland. She brought it back here to the Lake district. It lived under an old armchair (which it would only let Rosalyn sit on) by the fire. Only came out to eat and toilet and when it did we were mortified, we used to run and hide in other rooms.

    • @Josh_J91
      @Josh_J91 2 года назад +1

      @@garywalling4341 omg hahahahha thats hilarious there wild arnt they

  • @kevinprior3549
    @kevinprior3549 3 года назад +1

    You certainly wouldn't wanna try and stroke them like a normal cat

  • @MrRhea84
    @MrRhea84 4 года назад

    so cute

  • @thurmanmerman3643
    @thurmanmerman3643 4 года назад +4

    When I was a kid I was told by mother about the _forest cat_ hybrid pet that was coming into the farm, but was not domesticated and was rarely seen.

    • @garywalling4341
      @garywalling4341 2 года назад

      My mothers cousin, Rosalyn, had a hybrid, it was mental, she found it by the side of the road on a trip to visit family in Scotland. She brought it back here to the Lake district. It lived under an old armchair (which it would only let Rosalyn sit on) by the fire. Only came out to eat and toilet and when it did we were mortified, we used to run and hide in other rooms.

  • @AliSkarsgard
    @AliSkarsgard 4 года назад

    Beautiful

  • @kayla_white01
    @kayla_white01 7 месяцев назад

    All i see is a cuddly little pookie 🥰

  • @Niallsmith-y8d
    @Niallsmith-y8d Год назад

    critically important work! I have seen 2 wildcats in my lifetime in Scotland, one in Glenmore and another nearby in Abernethy. Classic thick black blunted tail with the black rings. Shame its getting rarer every year.

  • @bennygairns2235
    @bennygairns2235 2 года назад +2

    Looks cute, but extremely aggressive.

  • @adityabaghaswara534
    @adityabaghaswara534 4 года назад +10

    I don't know why although it's a wild animal, but it's an adorable cat i should say..

  • @E_LithaBeth
    @E_LithaBeth 11 месяцев назад

    I love that they named him Hamish. Just finishing reading M. C. Beaton's books!

  • @JasmineSurrealVideos
    @JasmineSurrealVideos 2 года назад +4

    Fierce protective Scottish Kitty, can imagine him in a wee kilt and sporran, with mini swords for claws, hissing and yowling bravely at marauding invaders, to the sounds of the bagpipes lol.

    • @stonemarten1400
      @stonemarten1400 Год назад +2

      Some of the fierce Highland clans of old have Wildcats as their emblem. The Macphersons for example, whose motto is “Touch not the Cat, but with a Glove”, is a warning to you not to provoke them!

  • @davidnm21
    @davidnm21 4 года назад +8

    Such beautiful creatures even more so here in the wild of Scotland. Love my cats!

  • @LiveDonkeyDeadLion
    @LiveDonkeyDeadLion 4 года назад +2

    There’s a few at the New Forest Wildlife Centre, and I was told if you even get near their habitat they start hissing, and if you have to go inside they hiss non stop until you leave and you are very unwelcome in there. They look angry all the time

    • @darkcognitive
      @darkcognitive 4 года назад +1

      Yeah they can be fiercely territorial. At the highland wildlife centre in Kingussy (the one in the video) they have cages with runs that go over your head, and if you get close to them they certainly let you know about it. Amazing little creatures, but i wouldn't want to corner one out in the wild, they are bigger than domestic cats for sure and would leave you with a very nasty bite or scratch.

  • @Bunny-lo3hg
    @Bunny-lo3hg 2 года назад +1

    If mean and dangerous then why floofy and cute?

  • @matthewbillings4083
    @matthewbillings4083 4 года назад +2

    The Forbidden cat

  • @aaronchristiansoriano9889
    @aaronchristiansoriano9889 4 года назад

    Awwwwe so cute 😟😟

  • @catherineroquais4413
    @catherineroquais4413 4 года назад

    Bravo le chat

  • @thecookiemonster5586
    @thecookiemonster5586 4 года назад +3

    I actually fed some at my zoo (in Scotland) we basically hid food Round the enclosure

  • @SuperflySamurai88
    @SuperflySamurai88 2 года назад +4

    All the comments joking about the extinction of the rarest wild cat in the word....Why is that funny? Why laugh at a species that will go extinct? Humanity needs to wake up and realise it's not funny, it's not just a flip away comment. Your children ....grand children. They will never see these amazing animals in the wild again. There reference will be just another extinct species in a book.

  • @tinamartinez520
    @tinamartinez520 4 года назад

    Love that

  • @MisterManj
    @MisterManj Год назад +1

    I saw, one these cats the other day in Tottenham I was like what a beautiful looking cat but it did seem domesticated....

    • @stonemarten1400
      @stonemarten1400 Год назад

      Sure it was some tough Tabbie Alley Cat that you saw, but not a Scottish Wildcat!

    • @MisterManj
      @MisterManj Год назад

      @@stonemarten1400 yeah you most likely right, but that cat did look majestic......

  • @luvleyannie
    @luvleyannie 2 года назад

    Hmm, nice to see a documentary on my therianthropy! Thanks.

  • @OneBlueFroggy
    @OneBlueFroggy 4 года назад +1

    His fur does not make the mark of an 'M' on his forehead. That is how you know he is s wild cat !

    • @jewelmarkess
      @jewelmarkess 4 года назад +1

      All tabbies have 'M' on their forehead including domestic ones. There are other ways to tell the difference one of which is clear circles on the tail with no black stripe on the top of the tail. The stripe along the back is called the dorsal stripe. In domestic cats, it goes till the end of the tail, in wildcats it stops at the base. They also have bushy tails which don't get thinner. There is a video here explaining how to tell a Scottish wildcat apart from a hybrid and from a domestic tabby. BTW - the kitty in the video may be a hybrid as there is white around his muzzle.

  • @pierrebotella3603
    @pierrebotella3603 2 года назад +7

    The Scottish wildcat does not seem different from the European wildcat that we encounter in the Alps, the Jura and between France and Switzerland. We call it forest cat. There is also the same problem of hybridization with the domestic cat, especially the one that has become feral. Experts estimate that 15 to 20% of wildcats have traces of hybridization with the domestic cat.

    • @Raggedyredwood
      @Raggedyredwood 2 года назад +7

      Scottish wildcats are actually European wild cats, they just call them Scottish wild cats or highland tigers in Scotland, same cat different colloquialism

    • @SuperflySamurai88
      @SuperflySamurai88 Год назад

      Scottish wildcat is a sub species of the European wildcat.@@Raggedyredwood

    • @Kingsaxxy3872
      @Kingsaxxy3872 Год назад

      Because it’s technically a distinct subspecies of the European Wildcat, went through some changes and may have some differences in lifestyle and maybe physique, but are subspecies still.

  • @DavidBoag
    @DavidBoag 2 года назад +1

    Just seen David Attenboroughs latest Frozen Planet where he talks of “The world’s rarest big cat, the Amur Leopard. 120 left in the wild”. Is our own cat so small or so rare that we now ignore it. There a far less Wildcats in Scotland!

    • @hikaru9624
      @hikaru9624 Год назад

      The wild cat isn't a big cat.

  • @XmarcX92
    @XmarcX92 3 года назад +2

    Walk like a cat, look like a cat, breed with cats.
    Yea that’s a cat

  • @AboudUranium
    @AboudUranium 3 года назад +1

    My mind: pet it even if he bite me.

  • @limpa756
    @limpa756 Год назад

    The irony in that first sentence lmao

  • @angelaboheme7361
    @angelaboheme7361 4 года назад

    The original grumpy cat.

  • @martyfeldman3269
    @martyfeldman3269 4 года назад +249

    It’s so endangered it’s called “The Scottish wildcat “ and not the British wildcat.

    • @jobless5189
      @jobless5189 4 года назад +5

      Lmao😂

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 4 года назад +28

      You can tell that they're Scottish though. They give themselves names like 'Hamish'.

    • @blademanx
      @blademanx 4 года назад +3

      uh oh..here we go!!

    • @darrell2322
      @darrell2322 4 года назад +4

      @MrAbletospeak its a joke

    • @SaviourInDistress
      @SaviourInDistress 4 года назад +13

      @MrAbletospeak yeah dude but they said in the video that it's original range was the entire of Britain.

  • @zahis9974
    @zahis9974 3 года назад +3

    The Scottish wild cat is extinct now. The ones alive today have been mixed with the eastern cat. Every single one of the wildcats now have Eastern cat blood.

  • @AshishKumar-up8cx
    @AshishKumar-up8cx 4 года назад +2

    He is cute thou...🐈. I would love to pet him.....he is a character

    • @gerdforster883
      @gerdforster883 4 года назад +1

      He wouldn't want to be petted and would sgred your hand if you tried.
      European wild cats (of which the scottish wild cat is a subspecies), can not be domesticated, even though they are almost the same species as domestic cats.
      It is not a 100% clear why that is. My money is on human predation having killed off all those individuals that showed any proclivity to come near humans a long time ago.

    • @donkey3909
      @donkey3909 3 года назад +1

      It's impossible to tame them

  • @dbsk06
    @dbsk06 4 года назад +2

    sassy girl

  • @jhibberd6290
    @jhibberd6290 3 года назад

    It looks like a mean version of my kitty

  • @lumemaa7
    @lumemaa7 4 года назад

    CHONK 😍

  • @No7withcheese
    @No7withcheese Год назад

    Obi-wans side hustle was narrating wildlife documentaries.

  • @jennyferagoston9674
    @jennyferagoston9674 8 месяцев назад

    Hey ...
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  • @jamesdocherty7364
    @jamesdocherty7364 4 года назад

    1:15 whats the song thats playing anyone ?

  • @antonioguerreiro1615
    @antonioguerreiro1615 Год назад

    i have a hybrid as a pet he is not to be messed with

  • @ramenlover334
    @ramenlover334 4 месяца назад

    I swear I encountered a cat like this in Lincolnshire in the late 80s.
    I was walking with my grandad on the Old coach road ( just north abit of the ermine west ) and saw a very bulky cat like this that made a funny kinda growl. It didn’t even run off, it just sort of walked slowly into the grass and bush looking at us.

    • @kirkdandie
      @kirkdandie 15 дней назад

      No. What you saw was a measly Sassenach cat. 🥴

  • @kylianvanhoorn2859
    @kylianvanhoorn2859 3 года назад

    For anyone wondering, that's ewan mcgregor narrating

  • @patsk8127
    @patsk8127 Год назад +1

    That’s why domestic cats can’t partially live outside the house. Keep your cats at home people

    • @hikaru9624
      @hikaru9624 Год назад

      Or just get them done so they cannot breed if you're not planning on breeding cats.

  • @Obeizian
    @Obeizian 4 года назад +5

    He's so cute, cats are like a walking pillow.

  • @Seiferboi
    @Seiferboi 4 года назад +5

    I had a cat that looked like them, but she was a domestic cat.

  • @bettyottman1718
    @bettyottman1718 3 года назад +1

    The Scottish wild cat should exist

  • @frankieangus14
    @frankieangus14 3 года назад

    Where can I find this full documentary?

  • @TM-cr3br
    @TM-cr3br 4 года назад

    That’s the car next door