Scottish wildcat

An inside look at the Scottish wildcat breeding program at Alladale Wilderness Reserve in Scotland

British Wildlife Centre 13/05/14

Scottish wildcat is one of the UK's rarest animals. Get identification tips, images, and signs and spotting tips. Find out why it needs remote woodland.

Once widespread across the British Isles, there are now fewer than 100 pure Scottish wildcats left. Joe Gibbs considers whether curiosity or interbreeding killed the ‘Highland tiger’.

Scottish wildcat at warnham

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Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) / Chat sauvage écossais

Staying at the British Wildlife Centre but this time a Scottish Wildcat. We were very lucky to have a special day organised by Olympus that enabled us to go inside the enclosures to get closer to the different species. My favourite is always these cats, they might look like your ordinary tabby but you definitely don't want to try and stroke one, not if you value your fingers that is. Being inside the enclosure allowed me to get down low and blur the foreground and background with an aperture…