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The Scottish wildcat or Kellas cat is the likely inspiration of the mythological Scottish creature Cat-sìth. Since the 13th century, it has been a symbol of Clan Chattan . Most of the members of Clan Chattan have the Scottish wildcat on their crest badges , and their motto is "Touch not the cat bot a glove", bot meaning 'without'.
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The Scottish Wildcat Association was a charity founded in 2008 by filmmaker Steve Piper with the aims of conserving the Scottish wildcat, [1] [2] which is critically endangered in the UK. Threatened by hybridisation with feral domestic cats, recent estimates have suggested that only 35 pure Scottish wildcats exist in the wild, with no pure ...
It is an interspecific hybrid between the Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris syn. Felis silvestris grampia) and the domestic cat (Felis catus). Once thought to be a mythological wild cat, with its few sightings dismissed as hoaxes , a specimen was killed in a snare by a gamekeeper in 1984 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and found to be a hybrid between ...
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Two lynx which were illegally released in the Scottish Highlands have been successfully captured – with experts warning the creatures could have died if they had remained in the wild.
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Scotland hosts the only populations of European wildcat (sub-species Felis sylvestris grampia) in the British Isles, with numbers estimated at between 400 and 2,000 animals. [8] In 2013 it was announced that the island of Càrna is to provide a sanctuary and breeding station in order to protect the threatened species.