Felid is having their distinctive charm, no matter be large lion, tiger, leopard, ounce, catamount, cat of medium-sized lynx, ferocious, cat aing shallow lake overgrown with wild plants, still be diminutive desert cat, fishing cat, black sufficient cat, having the color that differs severally, but was full of wild sense of beauty again.
Of course, there also is force player in feline division, but major felid is the dark night hunter with body strong and vigorous form, be good at lurk, ambuscade, observe in the dark, be being put in knight-errant novel is Great Master of small meritorious service + Wu Lin ace, those who be put in appropriate of the appropriate in game part is the assassin with sharp full drop, connect small-sized felid not exceptional also.
As the network more and more develop, the intellectual face of people is rising generally also, have a lot of do not understand before, the animal that how had not seen, some closer year of field of vision that also entered more person gradually is medium. Than the animal that as above face pursues medium, a lot of people recognize the possibility, if be wildlife enthusiast or felid is confused, more knew, the name that also can make it -- steppe cat (Otocolobus Manul) .
Compare foolish condition besides its appearance but besides bud of Ju muddy chubbiness, chan Ping steppe cat this name is quite absorbing of eyeball, it is one felid obviously, either bunny also is not macaque (monkey) , combine the name of this both unluckily however 2 to call steppe cat.
Say again after a while about the specific data of steppe cat and characteristics, first for why it can cry so name. About the antecedents of steppe cat name, at present and neither one very certainly, exact answer, but circulating 3 views.
The first view is steppe cat the transliteration that this one word is Tujue language, original idea is " stop, stop " , the meeting when person of Tujue of ancient time of according to legend sees feral steppe cat is given out " stop " call, and steppe cat always can stop offal pace to look round person a few, be passed into its name later so.
The 2nd view is steppe cat one word originates the union of Mongolia language and Chinese, in Mongolia language, one word is lynx N of ü of Sileg ü S, transliteration is " lynx Sun " (simplify later lynx) . Mongolia later a kind of puppy discovered when having fur trade, no matter its fur is color or feel follow " lynx Sun " very picture, but bodily form size is differ in thousands ways however, have bunny volume only, so both is united in wedlock, be in charge of this kind of puppy to be called " steppe cat " .
The 3rd view is to say steppe cat action is quick some resemble a monkey (macaque) , and rely on to eat rat hare to make a living, be called steppe cat by people so.
This is 3 views of the origin of steppe cat name that circulates at present, hear the argument that goes up to have each each, but the testimony that also can take out your academia be convinced without which kinds of view, at present so the name origin of steppe cat still is maintaining these a few kinds of hypothesis, everybody can choose the view that he likes by oneself, also can understand entirely.
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Again for the appearance that says steppe cat. The name is put aside aside, the appearance of steppe cat also very stamp is very much now person (especially schoolgirl) the bud dot in the heart: It all over shaggy look fat fat, connect abdomen fluffy, auditive round small, appear very big than the face with body photograph, teem with expressional bag, 4 legs are very short.
Above all steppe cat lives in in inferior slope of the prairie of the area, country prairie, cliff and desert region, habitat altitude can be as high as 4000-5000 rice sometimes, arrived special in the evening chill, colder in the winter.
Steppe cat is fleeciness and dense up and down all over by wool, can help them maintain temperature in chilly climate. And the means catching hunt of steppe cat is to conceal ambush, the leg is original short, belly chilly bends over on past ground, so the abdomen of steppe cat also has shock by wool, heat preservation effect is very good.
The small short leg of steppe cat can reduce the focus of whole body, can let them running, the mobile middleman and guarantor such as Pan Yan manages body entity firm, bend over the limb of the steppe cat when next rest can by abdominal be lapped rise by wool, also can very good maintain temperature. Still have the facial organ that is steppe cat, fruity small ear can be made the same score together with facial hair, can decrease medicinal powder hot area, avoid temperature prediction of a person's luck in a given year.
Although steppe cat looks very small, with moggy about the same big, but it is having however to it bodily form not the mad haggard affection of conform to, want than moggy a lot of fiercer, prey at ordinary times rodent and avian. Steppe cat because disposition is feral and irratable cannot domestication, and artificial circle raises the breed below the condition rate is low, still be the species of CITES appendix Ⅱ , be in our country is a country more 2 class protect an animal, so steppe cat cannot regard as pet is raised, favorite word or a cloud suck steppe cat!
