Thank you Wim,
The figures that stuck in my mind from years ago for feral
cats killed in an outback New South Wales N P were that several were
somewhere in the 15 to 20 kg range, but this seemed so enormous I didn't
trust my memory and hoped someone on birding-aus might have had a record of
the data. Maybe they really were that size.
I reckon I'd rather tangle with a dingo than a 15 kg feral cat!
Syd Curtis
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on 13/8/01 11:19 PM, Wim Vader at wrote:
> At 23:05 13.08.01 +0800, you wrote:
>
>> My thanks to Bob Forsyth (at <>) who supplied
>> (12/8/01 5:17 PM) some very interesting net sites re feral cats. I found
>> the material from the Commonwealth's Environment Australia particularly
>> interesting and informative.
>>
>> And http://www.aiheu.org/catpix/feraldomesticcat.html while not
>> providing data on the size of feral cats in Australia did come up with the
>> general advice that in the wild domestic cats revert to the original wild
>> type and such ferals can be up to 24 inches long for head/body, (plus 10
>> inches of tail) and weighing up to 15 pounds. That makes for a pretty
>> fearsome predator.
>>
>> Syd Curtis
>
>
> A local cat made it into the newspaper for having killed a
> dog. The proud owner boasted that the cat had recently brought home a
> Peregrine falcon! And this particular cat, not even feral, weighed in at 16
> KG!!
>
> Wim Vader, Tromsø
> Museum
> 9037 Tromsø, Norway
>
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