Ring-Tailed Cat

Beauty Of Animal | Ring-Tailed Cat | The ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family (not really a cat), native to arid regions of North America. It is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat or miner's cat, and is sometimes mistakenly called "civet cat" (according to similar, though unrelated, like a cat, omnivore of Asia and Africa) called. . Scientific name: Bassariscus astutus Geographical Range: Southwestern United States habitat. Have a variety of habitats, but prefer rocky regions, the ringtail is found in California, Colorado, eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Nevada, Texas, Utah, and northern and central Mexico.

 The ringtail is the state mammal of Arizona. It is also found in the Great Basin Desert. The ringtail prefers to live in rocky habitats associated with water. Physical Description: Adults are 14-16 cm long, around the base of the long tail. Ringtails are agile, catlike animals foxlike faces. Its tail has alternating bands of buff, white and black with the tail down. Can rotate their hind legs to allow easy descent on tree trunks. Ringtails have about 40 teeth and 6 mammaries Special adjustments.

Since ringtails are nocturnal animals, they have the "night life" through night vision devices adapted the eyes of nocturnal animals are usually large, this allows more retinal surface, which allows the eye. collect more light. The retina of nocturnal animals almost entirely of sticks, which are specialized for night vision, together. Ringtails have Eyeshine red or yellow. Ringtails hunt at night, dispatching their small prey with a bite in the neck.

 Predators of ringtails include horned owls, bobcats, coyotes, raccoons and. Reproductive behavior: start Ringtails, sexual behavior at 13 weeks of age show the average litter consists of 3.3 young, the young begin reproduction in the spring after the birth of their social organization. Generally, the adults are known to the family alone in close proximity to each other. The young stay with their mother until their first breeding season, then begin by the independent.

 

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