Ringtail Cats: Photos of the 'cute animal in North America' (2024)

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East West home is best

The American West is a huge and geographically unique region of Noord -America.Carnegiea giganta, shown here, from spectacular sunsets and from an infinite list of different cultures that came together to help shape and define.Cat who may fight for the title 'Sutest -animals in North America'.

Equal to the night

Ringtail cats are in principle nightly, and except live solitaries during the mating season.Then their raccoons of cousins.Most of their active time is spent on looking for food.

Unique appearance

The distinctive bushy tail is often longer than the head and the body combined;And the 14 to 16 Ifpedd Black-and White ribbons give rise to the name of the animal.Teeth and their fangs are well developed.

MINTERS

An average ringtail cat for adults weighs around.2 pounds (0.9 kg).

Ringtail cats are also known among other things.In the American West, Ringtails were called Miner's Cats, because they were often found in and around the mine camps in search of the many rodents that are often found around miners and their food.The civet cats are called because of a bad scent that they separate when they are scared or attacked.Bassariscus Sumichrasti.Cacomistle is derived from "tlacomiztli", a name from the language of the Nahuatl Indians in the valley of Mexico, which means "half mountain lion."

From here to there

Ringathail -Katti has Ann wide discours over North America.Bassariscus Craft) Often found in regions, ranging from the moderate rainforests of Southwest -Oregon, the length of California, South Nevada and Utah, West -Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisian.Bassariscus Sumichrasti) Available in the south of Mexico and it is known that it is created in Central America.

Calm and calm

With such a broad distribution, ringtail cats can survive in various habitats.Rocky Outcropping Luifels If available, their favorite habitat seem to be.They only actively survive in mountain forests, Pinyon Dennen and oak forests, chaparral, deserts and semi - dry regions.Access areas will be a favorite home site in all environments because the water source increases their food accessibility.

Darling

Ringtail -Katten (B. Astrass) is not a cat at all, but a member of the Raccoon family, ProCyonidae.Ears;His elongated body and long, black and white striped tail looks like a raccoon.

Come along

Ringtail cats are also excellent climbers.They are known for moving Agilelt under cliffs that jump from wall to wall.The narrow gorge.Iringtail cats have a unique opportunity to rotate the hind legs 180 degrees, giving the fast -moving animal the chance to keep the cushions on your feet in contact with the tree or rock on which it moves, say or down.

Family time

Female ringtail cats come in the heat in the spring of each year.They are born, are the young people who cannot see or hear and are covered with short beige-colored hair.Every year they open their eyes when they are about a month old and get their adult color of 4 months.Between 30 and 40 days after birth and are usually unclear after 10 weeks.Adulthood at approximately 10 months old.

Open for all the food

Ringtail cats are omnivores, but expensive material is their primary preference in food.He will eat on the carrier, but rather rodents, insects, rabbits and ground grains.Where possible, they also eat snakes, lizards, birds and frogs.To enjoy acorns, as well as Maretak and Pinyon berries.Where fruit trees are available, it is known for eating the ripe fruit, resulting in conflicts with the fruit tree that people own.

Predators and switching

Ringtail cats must be wary of larger predators, especially the nightly chase, silent flying large horned owls (Uil Viriniaans).Dog blab), Bobcats (Lynx rufus) and mountain Leeuwen (Puma Concolor) Is always a life -threatening danger to the small ringtail cat.

When it is threatened, the ring tail cat brings its broken tail high over its back to the head in an attempt to look bigger.

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