Margays are small felines that spend most of their lives in the trees. Margays can rotate their ankles 180 degrees, allowing them to climb down trees headfirst. They have been observed jumping up to 12 feet horizontally and have been known to mimic the voices of infant monkeys so they can eat the parents.
I have a lot of ongoing projects currently and a little spare time for personal art, but I really want to make at last six drawings for this year's challenge. Please cross your fingers!
Which wild cats would you like me to draw? Let me know in the comments!
Scottish Wildcat and Scottish Wildkittens. Once widespread across Great Britain, this population of European wildcats is now only found in northern and eastern Scotland. They’re threatened by habitat loss, hunting, and hybridized with domestic cats.
This is gonna be the postcard for February’s Creature Mail!
[ID: an illustration of a serious-looking wildcat on a fallen log. Two kittens are cuddling in the crook of a branch below her. The background is a field at night, with snow falling. End.]
🟪 ANIMAL OF THE DAY: Scottish wildcat. Felis silvestris silvestris. not a domestic cat!! a fully wild cat found in Scotland. endangered because it keeps mating with house cats. probably out of Wedlock too. terrible
Ceramic bottle modeled in the form of a standing feline, decorated with resist-painted motif.
Gallinazo style (aka Virú culture), NW Peru, Early Intermediate Period, c. 200 BCE - 600 CE.
Spotted at the American Museum of Natural History NYC.
PS: this vessel may depict the Peruvian subspecies of Pampas Cat aka Northern Colocolo (Leopardus colocola garleppi). The Andean Mountain Cat (Leopardus jacobita) is also often suggested, but their range is more southern and higher elevation than where the Virú were? Also note the stripier legs on the Colocolo similar to the ceramic: