Sadly, our wildcat is critically endangered with only 400 individuals remaining in the wild and barely a handful in the captive breeding population.
The Scottish wildcat is one of the most impressive predators in the world; intelligent, fearless, resourceful, patient, agile and powerful they are genuine superpredators and until as recently as the 1950's were believed to be man killers.
Although wildcats look similar to domestic cats, these are no feral or farm cats running wild; they're Britain's only remaining large wild land predator and have walked the earth for millions of years before man arrived or domestic cats evolved. Every inch a cat in every sense of the word the Scottish wildcat epitomises the independent, mysterious and wild spirit of the Highlands like no other creature.
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