Scottish ‘Highland Tiger’ wildcat more endangered than Asian cousin - BBC
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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home The Scottish "Highland Tiger" wildcat is even more endangered than its striped Asian cousin.
Landmark wildlife series narrated by Ewan McGregor.
The Highlands may appear a wild and unforgiving place, but for millennia people have lived alongside wild animals here, sharing the same weather, seasons and landscapes.
For many years, the impact of humans on the landscape has been damaging, with forests cut down, seas warming and many iconic species like the wolf and bear vanishing.
But now things are changing and people are working to put back what we've lost. Humans are finding ways of protecting the Highlands' precious ospreys, eagles, red kites, seabirds and dolphins. Never before has so much work been done to restore the wild Highlands to its full glory.
Highlands: Scotland's Wild Heart | Series 1 Episode 4 | BBC
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I'm 95% sure I had one of these cats a a pet in the 90s. Most people were scared of him, our dog was scared of him & other cats never seemed to give him any hassle. Both of the local vets thought he was a Scottish Wildcat & both were extremely reluctant to touch him.
I had one in the 90s aswell hahaha
@Dutch Van Der Linde Yes, as long as we didn’t stoke/pet him. We were only really allowed to do that when he came to us, otherwise he’d bite. He was happy to live in the same house as us, basically.
@@2high83 pics or it didn't happen
@@jjr1728 😂😂😂
My mothers cousin, Rosalyn, had a hybrid, it was mental, she found it by the side of the road on a trip to visit family in Scotland. She brought it back here to the Lake district. It lived under an old armchair (which it would only let Rosalyn sit on) by the fire. Only came out to eat and toilet and when it did we were mortified, we used to run and hide in other rooms. If it was a wild cat you'd be 100% sure. Even this hybrid was fearsome and unpredictable honestly I'd rather of been in a pool with a great white than confined with that beastie.
Beautiful cats, must protect them. I think that our purpose as mankind is not to dominate the animal kingdom but rather to be guardians, keeping their environments from decay and ruin.
Funny how you are all for protecting such cats, but at same times do the opposite thing to endangered human species that get wiped out by inbreeding with other races.
All we need to do is just leave nature alone. We don't have to mess with it or guard it. Just leave it alone and it will be fine.
@@CC-vv2ne There's only one human species bro. GTFO with dat racism.
@@K-Viz And there is only one Cat race and one Dog race, yet you acknowledge that genetics matter and behaviour gets inherited
@@CC-vv2ne you cant reduce humankind to simple animals
No, that’s my cat Dave. Give him back.
No
@@UrbexUK2008 no
KopSince89YNWA GIVE FAVE BACK
No, that's my cat sir.
You tell him kopsince 89 YNWA you tell him mate
Here, kitty, kitty, here...O M G R U N
Mum its go the baby.
Just run forget the baby
I mean you have nothing to fear from them as long as you remeber the code, respect and distance.
They will come to you if they choose not the other way around.
And even if they do you must always remeber they are not domestic cats but wild animals like foxes or wolves.
Lmao 🤣
😂😂😂
These wild cats are absolutely beautiful, and I wish all conservation efforts the best.
However. Their faces look like hilariously grumpy cartoon cats, and that really cracks me up.
Well they’re Scottish so it makes sense
These cats are so important to Scottish people and are a big part of our culture. If they go extinct this would be a huge loss for Scotland.
You care so much about Scottish cats interbreeding and diluting their gene pool, perhaps you should pay more attention to Scottish PEOPLE doing the same thing.
Hi, American here, why are these cats so important to the culture/ecosystem? I was hoping they would explain in the video.
@@SoLuVaBle299 because you need an equal balance of prey and predators for wood webs to work
@@AssdafflabaffYou know, we are all Homo Sapien. I wish mayocide is real.
The pure breed will go extinct, there just are too few of them and the fact that they breed with housecats, and there are 4,000 hybrids out there that they breed with and under 50 pure Wildcats. If a huge capture and spay / neuter release program happened, it would be expensive and need a lot of people involved, they could possibly cut down on the hybrid breeding cats. It's very noble to try and save them and I wish people luck, but it just seems too late considering that they breed with housecats and all the hybrids out there.
In a way, their DNA will live on through those hybrids at least. So it won't be like they're completely gone. Some of them lives on in the hybrids. It's not optimal by any means, but sure better than having them hunted and killed to extinction. A piece of them will continue.
If they didn't breed with houscats and hybrids, there would be a chance to bump the population. The only other way to do it would be to find some enormous island out there that doesn't already have cats and bring only the pure Scottish Wildcat to the island. You ever hear of those Cat Islands that didn't used to have cats and are now overpopulated with them? :P It's not totally serious, but in a way having them on an isolated island without other cats would be the only way to grow the pure population.
I'm not saying to give up, I love that people are trying, but I do also think they're basically lost already. Some kind of captive or isolated breeding programs are the only way to keep the pure Wildcat alive at this point. Anywhere that doesn't have cats that wants a cool little cat species running around? :D
Its so beautiful !pls protect them 😍
Greetings from Iran
Everything possible must be done to save these beautiful, fascinating and magical little beings. The Scottish wildcats. 💞
I hope this is successful. It would be such a shame to lose them, especially when they’ve been around for so long.
Wow, look at those canine teeth! Longer than a regular housecat's canines!
Aye because they remained wild so needed to have bigger teeth to kill Deer Calfs and other animals.
3 inch canine teeth on males.
Will it still come if i psstpsstpsst?
Ahahhahah u came here from that robin guy? No thats kskskskskskska
Not a good ideia, bro don't mess with the kitty
😂😂😂
nope. European and Asiatic wildcats completely lack the genetic disposition for domestication. Many people have tried in the past and even when raised from small kittens, found them utterly impossible, untamed. And not just in a 'no no bad kitty way'. lol
It's pretty much agreed that all domesticated cats are descended from wildcat species from the middle east/norteast africa.
No. It will run away.
Cats are so beautiful! All of them.
Also the domestic cat caracal lynx bobcat and serval
learning something everyday! didn't even think of that wild cats like this existed
Such a beautiful animal!
Such a beautiful wild cat
I'm sure it's a ferocious wild cat, but he's also a cutie-pie kitty cat with a love heart nose. He's stocky like my Sir Lottie
It will try to rip your face of in the wild
@@thecookiemonster5586 How aggressive are they?
That summons it all, " he is a character".
It’s also important to encourage locals to spay and neuter their outdoor cats if they are nearby to a Scottish wildcat population
Well done Hamish what a good mancat you are
Poor hamish looks like he has problems with teeth..
I thought I knew a lot about animals but I didn’t know about these cats
Gavin Maxwell, Author of 'Ring of Bright Water' mentioned having a Wild cat kitten, which is the first time I had heard of them.
They're almost extinct already.
@@ia8018 Sadly.
I'm 34 and only just found about Scottish wild cats
I live in Wales
Shame they're not here because like Scotland
We've got beautiful Hills and forest's they would love
Wildcats used to found in Wales and you certainly have the remote habitat to suit a reintroduction.
Wildcats actually we’re found in Wales and England! But i think during the Victorian age they were heavily hunted for fear of farms being raided, thankfully enough they managed to continue living in Scotland though they still do have issues.
I am from Scotland and it would be good for the scottish wild cat to be introduced to the Welsh forests and hills as it once was
Might be a few wildcats of sorts out there. More likely Lynx’s.
It’s so endangered it’s called “The Scottish wildcat “ and not the British wildcat.
Lmao😂
You can tell that they're Scottish though. They give themselves names like 'Hamish'.
uh oh..here we go!!
@MrAbletospeak its a joke
@MrAbletospeak yeah dude but they said in the video that it's original range was the entire of Britain.
Beautiful cat!
OMG, so beautiful, so cool. Douglas I love you for this.
Protect and save all kinds of cat , stop hunting them for nothing...
I support hunting for feral cat hunting in Australia
@@prestons3400 then you are killer
@@leonalexios7392 how
@@leonalexios7392 house cats actually damage the enviroment quite a bit. They kill birds at an alarming rate because there are so many of them.
I'm not sure the cat above is even hunted, it's just that it doesn't have any room anymore. Same with the alpine-eagle which had it's origenall home all over germany but fled to the mountains after humans took over.
Looking back on photos of it im 99 percent sure i had one of these living in Manchester it lived till 18 (1996-2014) i always thought it looked differnt and i would attack me when i ran past her on the stairs hahahaha but was a gorgeous thing
My mothers cousin, Rosalyn, had a hybrid, it was mental, she found it by the side of the road on a trip to visit family in Scotland. She brought it back here to the Lake district. It lived under an old armchair (which it would only let Rosalyn sit on) by the fire. Only came out to eat and toilet and when it did we were mortified, we used to run and hide in other rooms.
@@garywalling4341 omg hahahahha thats hilarious there wild arnt they
Beautiful animals. 💕
How interesting. What a lovely wild cat
freid cat, and china , a delicoiuos dish in bejing restraunts, a la cat 69.95
What beautiful animals
I love this cat
the most cute killer ever lived
Very cute, but look up videos of Black-footed cat which has higher hunting success rate than any cat yet is no bigger than a domestic 3 month old kitten.
Still cute af
You certainly wouldn't wanna try and stroke them like a normal cat
Scotland has it all : the most stunning landscapes, sexiest men and most beautiful wild cats!
These little guys are just Soooooooo beautiful!! They must be saved and reintroduced in the wild!
Eww
"sexiest men" 🤢
@Rocco Hilly are these going to china for thier dinner?
You talking about tge kilts
@@ce1834 Umm Gerard Butler, James McAvoy, Richard Madden, Sam Heughan, Ewan MacGregor, Calvin Harris and voted most sexiest man of the last century... Sean Connery.
Lovely to see unique genetics celebrated.
Fierce protective Scottish Kitty, can imagine him in a wee kilt and sporran, with mini swords for claws, hissing and yowling bravely at marauding invaders, to the sounds of the bagpipes lol.
Some of the fierce Highland clans of old have Wildcats as their emblem. The Macphersons for example, whose motto is “Touch not the Cat, but with a Glove”, is a warning to you not to provoke them!
Magnificent creature
In Britain we also had the wild British Lynx, sadly hunted by man to extinction 400 years ago.
can be reintroduced.
Blade ManX Really would love to see a reintroduction of the Lynx. Sadly the farming industry is concerned their sheep will be targeted. I did read though that farmers can get Llamas which will discourage Lynxes from attacking sheep.
I used to live near Catshill in Worcestershire which according to local history got its name from the number of wildcats that lived in the surrounding hills and forests in the Middle Ages.
Yes, wildcats were once widespread across Mainland Britain, not just Scotland.
Mashallah. Such an amazing creature.
All i see is a cuddly little pookie 🥰
awwwwwww what a cutie
_terrifying creatures_
Oh, looks like normal cat,
Beautiful ❤️💕❤️
Looks like a normal cat. Breeds with a normal cat. Definitely not a normal cat. Apparently.
@@weswheel4834 a normal cat is a cat most viewed by human society not the wild one. That is what he meant
@@weswheel4834 If you seen one you would definitely know the difference. They are bigger and stronger than normal cats, have slightly bigger teeth, and certainly have a menacing air about them when you get close to one.
@@darkcognitive you wouldn't get close to one.
@@isobelmiddleton6353 I’ve been close to them many times at the Highland wildlife park.
My dad's friend while working uo in Scotland on a construction site took in a stray kitten and fed it and brought the kitten back from Scotland in the 1950s thinking it was a normal stray cat ! It turned out to be a mountain cat and thankfully a zoo took the cat in .
Beautiful little kitty 😺
They're so cute!
Ferocious
The Forbidden cat
Looks cute, but extremely aggressive.
I swear I encountered a cat like this in Lincolnshire in the late 80s.
I was walking with my grandad on the Old coach road ( just north abit of the ermine west ) and saw a very bulky cat like this that made a funny kinda growl. It didn’t even run off, it just sort of walked slowly into the grass and bush looking at us.
Beautiful
They have very sharp teeth and claws!
The Scottish Wildcat the hardest cat in the world.
Not sure you’d want to pick-up and stroke one of these kittys!
@@stonemarten1400 I wish I could.
I love that they named him Hamish. Just finishing reading M. C. Beaton's books!
Thank you!
Wow, a thing of beauty, fabulous,
Beautiful cat
so cute
He’s a good papa
Awwwwe so cute 😟😟
When I was a kid I was told by mother about the _forest cat_ hybrid pet that was coming into the farm, but was not domesticated and was rarely seen.
My mothers cousin, Rosalyn, had a hybrid, it was mental, she found it by the side of the road on a trip to visit family in Scotland. She brought it back here to the Lake district. It lived under an old armchair (which it would only let Rosalyn sit on) by the fire. Only came out to eat and toilet and when it did we were mortified, we used to run and hide in other rooms.
Love that
critically important work! I have seen 2 wildcats in my lifetime in Scotland, one in Glenmore and another nearby in Abernethy. Classic thick black blunted tail with the black rings. Shame its getting rarer every year.
His fur does not make the mark of an 'M' on his forehead. That is how you know he is s wild cat !
All tabbies have 'M' on their forehead including domestic ones. There are other ways to tell the difference one of which is clear circles on the tail with no black stripe on the top of the tail. The stripe along the back is called the dorsal stripe. In domestic cats, it goes till the end of the tail, in wildcats it stops at the base. They also have bushy tails which don't get thinner. There is a video here explaining how to tell a Scottish wildcat apart from a hybrid and from a domestic tabby. BTW - the kitty in the video may be a hybrid as there is white around his muzzle.
I saw, one these cats the other day in Tottenham I was like what a beautiful looking cat but it did seem domesticated....
Sure it was some tough Tabbie Alley Cat that you saw, but not a Scottish Wildcat!
@@stonemarten1400 yeah you most likely right, but that cat did look majestic......
The original grumpy cat.
I actually fed some at my zoo (in Scotland) we basically hid food Round the enclosure
i've had the rare and somewhat terrifying experiance with one of these in the wild. they are stunning. but will tear your throat out given the chance.
@Angela-vu9tt They are slightly bigger.
Hmm, nice to see a documentary on my therianthropy! Thanks.
My mind: pet it even if he bite me.
Bravo le chat
The irony in that first sentence lmao
I tell all the Scottish lady's I'm a Scottish wild man. 🐱
Just seen David Attenboroughs latest Frozen Planet where he talks of “The world’s rarest big cat, the Amur Leopard. 120 left in the wild”. Is our own cat so small or so rare that we now ignore it. There a far less Wildcats in Scotland!
The wild cat isn't a big cat.
It looks like a mean version of my kitty
CHONK 😍
There’s a few at the New Forest Wildlife Centre, and I was told if you even get near their habitat they start hissing, and if you have to go inside they hiss non stop until you leave and you are very unwelcome in there. They look angry all the time
Yeah they can be fiercely territorial. At the highland wildlife centre in Kingussy (the one in the video) they have cages with runs that go over your head, and if you get close to them they certainly let you know about it. Amazing little creatures, but i wouldn't want to corner one out in the wild, they are bigger than domestic cats for sure and would leave you with a very nasty bite or scratch.
The Scottish wildcat does not seem different from the European wildcat that we encounter in the Alps, the Jura and between France and Switzerland. We call it forest cat. There is also the same problem of hybridization with the domestic cat, especially the one that has become feral. Experts estimate that 15 to 20% of wildcats have traces of hybridization with the domestic cat.
Scottish wildcats are actually European wild cats, they just call them Scottish wild cats or highland tigers in Scotland, same cat different colloquialism
Scottish wildcat is a sub species of the European wildcat.@@Raggedyredwood
Because it’s technically a distinct subspecies of the European Wildcat, went through some changes and may have some differences in lifestyle and maybe physique, but are subspecies still.
Job advertisement, "Wanted, a male Scottish Wild Cat. Food and accommodation are free; only responsibility is to breed. Mates shall be provided."
Living the male dream 😂😂😂
@@AnnaPxx Hahaha. Some cats have all the luck.
Walk like a cat, look like a cat, breed with cats.
Yea that’s a cat
He's so cute, cats are like a walking pillow.
Such beautiful creatures even more so here in the wild of Scotland. Love my cats!
I had a cat that looked like them, but she was a domestic cat.
fried china tidbits huh?
OMG, he's so cuteee
throw a cat on the barbi in china! damn ,... stop eating cats and dogs china!
Bambi Jerry, Just like you then xx
@@poolpoolification wtf??? no need to be racist.
@@clara-aaliyahogarro5079 that is not a racist statement- The chinese eat cats as a staple- dogs too- do you have covid ? That is not racist- I have no ill will toward any races! Learn what the word racist means..ok? It is a discrimination of a race- I made a stATEMENT ABOUT A GROUP OF FOLKS THAT EAT CATS. this is a fact NOT A RACIST STATEMENT
@@poolpoolification babe i’m black. i know what racist means... the korean people are the ones that eat cats and dogs, & u are assuming that she is korean... if u aren’t being racist u are stereotyping?
When the Lord Godknows upset every down he seems to send a cat my way. Its happened several times when ice been at my lowest. I can always rely on pussy cat footage to cheer me up 🐱
I don't know why although it's a wild animal, but it's an adorable cat i should say..
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Obi-wans side hustle was narrating wildlife documentaries.
sassy girl
Hii beautiful video
If mean and dangerous then why floofy and cute?
The Scottish wild cat should exist
Kitty kitty
The Scottish wild cat is extinct now. The ones alive today have been mixed with the eastern cat. Every single one of the wildcats now have Eastern cat blood.
That’s the car next door
Where can I find this full documentary?
That's no Thylacine ❤️
He looks like Ryan Reynold
It seems he has deformation in his jaw. I do hope he is not suffering because of his canine tooth.