Endangered Sand Cat Information
The classification has improved.
Endangered sand cat information. Some are killed by humans who consider them a threat to their livestock. This is not true caracals wildcats and leopards also live in true desert of the Middle East and Africa. Also high juvenile mortality rate 41.
Measuring Recovery with the IUCN Green Status of Species. Sand cat Felis margarita. It is unknown at this time to what extent if any the fires and bombs of the Gulf War affected the Sand Cat population.
In addition to natural predators the sand cat is also threatened by humans in the form of poisoning and capturing for the illegal pet trade. It is believed that they might have been also effected by the golf war furthermore decreasing their numbers. Its 5cm7cm 2028 long ears are set low on the sides of the head Which helps them to mix with the sand at prey time.
The sand cat is one of the most elusive felids in the world and is very difficult to study using trigger camera traps. Snakes Serpentes jackals. Why are sand cats endangered.
Sand Cat 2003 Anti-predator Adaptations. One of the smallest wild cat species in the world the black-footed cat lives in. Sand cats are threatened by habitat loss hunting and collection for the pet trade.
Listed as Near Threatened due to concern over potential low population size and decline. Officially sand cats are not endangered. Two populations exist one that is hybridized and another derived from an Israeli population.