Southern African wildcat

The Southern African wildcat (Felis lybica cafra) is one of three subspecies of the African wildcat.[1] It is native to southern and south-eastern Africa.[2] In 2007, it was tentatively recognised as a distinct subspecies on the basis of genetic analysis.[3] Morphological evidence suggests the break between the subspecies in African to occur in the south-east, in the area of Tanzania and Mozambique.[4]
In Afrikaans it is called 'vaalboskat'; in Swahili 'kaka mwiw', 'kimbum', or 'kaka pori'; in Herero 'ochawhi'; in Ndebele 'igola'.[5] It is also known in English as the 'bush cat'.[6]
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