wildcat

(Felis silvestris)

One of the eleven animal species (not counting bats and marine species) native to Great Britain that is a European protected species. The wildcat is critically endangered in Britain and is threatened by hybridization and interbreeding with feral domestic cats.



This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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