Cats in the United States the appearance of humans in the Americas. Some prehistoric animals referred to as "saber-toothed cats" were in fact marsupials and not cats at all, but called such because of their resemblance to true felines with large canine teeth. Two main species of big cat currently inhabit the United States. One is the jaguar ("Panthera onca"), which is related to many species of big cat found on other continents and can be found in the southwestern US and as far south as northern Argentina. The other, the cougar ("Puma concolor"), which is also known as the puma or mountain lion, is
Kellas cat Kellas cat The Kellas cat is a small black feline found in Scotland, and is an intraspecific hybrid between the Scottish wildcat ("Felis silvestris grampia") and the Domestic cat ("Felis silvestris catus"). Once thought to be a mythological wild cat, with its few sightings dismissed as hoaxes, a specimen was killed by being caught in a snare in 1984 by a gamekeeper named Ronnie Douglas and found to be a hybrid between wild and domestic subspecies of "Felis silvestris". It is not a formal breed of cat, but a landrace of felid hybrids. It is named after the village of