Felidae (novel) a best-seller. The initial print run of the novel in Germany was 7000 copies, but the publisher began producing more after the book's success. Worldwide, "Felidae" has sold millions of copies. A German animated film, also called "Felidae", produced in 1994 and directed by Michael Schaack was based on the first "Felidae" novel of the same name. The movie script was co-written by Pirinçci. It was the most expensive animated film produced in Germany, reportedly costing 10 million marks. Felidae (novel) Felidae is a 1989 crime fiction novel by the German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat
Felidae Adult tigers actually display elongated rosettes that now appear as stripes. Adult lions seem to lack any distinctive markings altogether. Both juvenile tigers and lions, however, display partial rosettes. This ancestral character state appears only during these early stages, supporting the notion that ontogeny reflects phylogeny. The rosette patterns found on snow leopards, jaguars, and leopards all have a common origin. Fossil occurrences indicate that the Felidae arrived in North America about 10 million years later than the Canidae, and about 20 million years later than the Ursidae and the Nimravidae. Traditionally, five subfamilies have been distinguished within the Felidae