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What cats have you seen? (1 Viewer)

Wow, there are some serious lists here! I've been happy with my North America list:

1. Mountain Lion (also Florida Panther)
2. Bobcat
3. Ocelot
4. Canada Lynx

I just got back from 6 weeks in Alaska, and had the fortune of having a local Lynx that I'd see fairly regularly. He was pretty skittish at first, but then he got used to me, giving me some good picture opportunities.
 

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wild cat
African wildcat (I know it's a dodgy split)
leopard cat
jungle cat
tiger
lion
serval
cheetah
leopard
Iberian lynx
jaguar
caracal
 
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Well, for what it's worth...

Lion (Masai Lion)
Leopard (African Leopard)
Cheetah (Tanzanian Cheetah)

All seen on a trip to Kenya 10 years ago.

My "failed to see" list is longer, with Tiger right at the top, although, like others, I saw fresh pug marks and heard roaring, on an early morning visit to Corbett NP!
 
amears said:
I'm sneaking up on a big cat full house, sort of. First records (and two are first and only records!) as follows:

Tiger, 2006, Kaziranga
Clouded Leopard, 2007, Mt Kerinci
Leopard, 2008, Kaeng Krachan
Cheetah, 2009, Kruger
Lion, 2009, Kruger
Jaguar, 2015, Pantanal

I'm not splitting Clouded Leopard, or chasing sub-species. Well, not yet. And this is all using quite a broad definition of big cat.

Am booked for Ladakh in Feb16 and then, all being well, I'll have to get a Chile trip lined up...

Have seen a few nice smaller cats but I'm a million miles away from a clean up!
Cheers all,
Andy
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Am pleased to report that I can add Snow Leopard to the list above:

Tiger, 2006, Kaziranga
Clouded Leopard, 2007, Mt Kerinci
Leopard, 2008, Kaeng Krachan
Cheetah, 2009, Kruger
Lion, 2009, Kruger
Jaguar, 2015, Pantanal
Snow Leopard, 2016, Hemis NP, Ladakh

On a very successful trip, we also saw a few Wolves in their splendid winter coats, plus 2 Eurasian Lynx. If anyone wants full details, just drop me a line.

Cheers,
Andy
 
Chinese Mountain Cat

Have just added number 30, depending on your taxonomy, to the list. At least four different Chinese Mountain Cats (photos of two on the Surfbirds Mammals Gallery) during a five day private trip to Rouergai in Sichuan along with another two Pallas's Cats. Great views of at least two Servals on my recent Wildwings tour in Ethiopia as well.

Andy, you should get both the cats on your forthcoming visit assuming the weather is ok.

Richard
 
Guigna said:
In no particular order and with two 'species' African Wildcat and Iriomote Wildcat not included in HMW. But still no Clouded Leopards.

Cheetah (31 - South Africa, Namibia, Kenya)
Caracal (9 - South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia)
Jungle Cat (16 - Nepal, India, Sri Lanka)
Rusty-spotted Cat (2 - Sri Lanka)
Fishing Cat (2 - Sri Lanka)
Eurasian Wildcat (3 - Scotland. Italy and India 'Desert')
African Wildcat (18 - Ethiopia, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia)
Black-footed Cat (2 - South Africa)
Sand Cat (2 - Western Sahara)
Jaguarundi (3 - Brazil, Argentina)
Kodkod (1 - Chile)
Geoffroy's Cat (4 - Argentina including both colour-phases)
Ocelot (18 - Brazil)
Oncilla (4 - Brazil)
Serval (7 - Cameroon, South Africa, Ethiopia) includes Servaline form in Cameroon.
Eurasian Lynx (2 - Poland, Estonia)
Iberian Lynx (3 - Spain, Donana and Andujar)
Canadian Lynx (4 sightings, probably two individuals, Alaska)
Bobcat (9 - Texas, Arizona, New Mexico)
Pallas's Cat (2 - Kazakhstan, China)
Leopard Cat (30+ - Borneo, Thailand, China, Sumatra)
Iriomote Wildcat (1 - Japan)
Flat-headed Cat (1 - Borneo)
Marbled Cat (4 - Sumatra)
Lion (300+ - Ivory Coast, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Namibia and India)
Leopard (29 - Ethiopia, Kenya, Gabon, South Africa, Namibia, India)
Tiger (7 - India, Nepal)
Snow Leopard (1 - Kazakhstan)
Jaguar (16 - Brazil)
Puma (18 - Chile)
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No Margay, what have you been doing with your time !!!;)

For what its worth Lion (many), Leopard (3) Cheetah (4) all in Kenya
Jungle Cat in India
Hoping for Tiger next year.
 
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Sunda Clouded Leopard

Just back from Sabah and Sumatra. Finally cracked Sunda Clouded Leopard at the 5th attempt. We saw it within 20 minutes of starting spotlighting at Deramakot on our first night, and saw the same individual again 3 days later for 45 minutes. Awesome. Just eight species to go until they decide to split more.
 
Richard, I believe many congrats are due for this one. When the dust has settled, let us know just how many hours, sites, drives, etc etc, it's taken. By 5th attempt I guess you mean 5th dedicated trip to Asia...?

And I guess 'the other' Clouded Leopard is on your remaining target list. What sites do you have up your sleeve for that...? I can't recall reading about anyone ever seeing it.

ATB,
Andy.
 
I met a Dutch guy at Kaeng Krachen who had seen one there the previous day; he had also seen it at least once at Khao Yai.

amears said:
Richard, I believe many congrats are due for this one. When the dust has settled, let us know just how many hours, sites, drives, etc etc, it's taken. By 5th attempt I guess you mean 5th dedicated trip to Asia...?

And I guess 'the other' Clouded Leopard is on your remaining target list. What sites do you have up your sleeve for that...? I can't recall reading about anyone ever seeing it.

ATB,
Andy.
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Sunda Clouded Leopard

Andy, it's five trips to Sabah and/or Sumatra looking for them, 36 nights spotlighting from vehicles, boats or on foot on previous trips, some sessions lasting upwards of six hours. That excludes pre-dawn spotlighting and daytime drives and walks!

I've looked for the other Clouded Leopard in Thailand at Khao Yai, Kaeng Krachan, Pang Sida and Phu Khieo over three trips. Not so much spotlighting something like 15 nights and mostly short sessions due to restrictions in most of the Thai parks. I know people who have seen them in the first two parks.

The eight remaining cats are Mainland Clouded Leopard, both Golden Cats, Bay Cat, Northern Oncilla, Margay, Pampas Cat and Andean Mountain Cat. I suspect the last two will be the easiest and saw one of the two in Chile last year, probably the latter, but the views were inconclusive. I did spend six days looking for Asian Golden Cat on Kerinci and Tapan Road in Sumatra last week. I suspect there will be further splits in the IUCN Group Cat Specialist review currently underway.

The next real chance of a new cat is Margay in Mexico in December although I do have a tour to Indonesia in late September with an extremely outside chance of Asian Golden Cat.

Richard
 
Great updates, many thanks.

On Mainland Clouded Leopard, I've just asked Andy Pierce if he'd ever seen one. Andy's been a field research ornithologist in Thailand for over 20 years now. The answer was 'no', which surprised me a bit...

I was lucky to see Golden Cat on the Tapan Rd in 2007, best of luck in all your future efforts, Richard.

In Sichuan last month, we didn't spend long on the Plateau so saw neither of the small cats up there, sadly.

Cheers,
AM
 
Sadly Tapan Road is now tarmac and consequently extremely busy with lorries, motorbikes etc. It must have been great back in the day when it was a dirt road and quiet.

Richard
 
Margay now added

Margay, number 32 finally under the belt in Mexico last week. A great early Christmas present. Just six to go unless IUCN update their taxonomy and split a few more.

Richard
 
Late to the party, but here goes:-

Tiger (India)
Lion (Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, India)
Leopard (Kenya, South Africa, Namibia,Botswana, India, Ski Lanka)
Cheetah (Kenya, South Africa, Namibia)
Caracal (South Africa)
Serval (South Africa)
African Wildcat (Kenya, South Africa, Namibia)
European Wildcat (Scotland)
Bobcat (California)
Jungle Cat (India)
Sunda Clouded Leopard (Borneo)
Sunda Leopard Cat (Borneo)

Just added Iberian Lynx (Spain)

Aiming for Black Footed Cat later this year.

Hows everyone else getting on?

Cheers
Martyn
 
A grand total of three as follows:

Iberian Lynx, Sierra de Andujar, Spain, January 2017
Canada Lynx, Manitoba, Canada, July 2017
Eurasian Lynx, Tajikistan, September 2017

There was a bit of a theme to my 2017.
 
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