One of sixteen such known “cat-fox” felines in northern Corsica was captured:
While resembling a domestic cat in some ways, the ring-tailed feline measures 90 centimetres (35 inches) from head to tail, has “very wide” ears, short whiskers and “highly developed” canine teeth.
Maureen Cofflard, “Corsica’s ‘cat-fox’: On the trail of what may be a new species” at Phys.org

That’s impressive! Toby, one of the editorial assistants at Uncommon Descent News, is a feline who is only 70 cm (30 inches) from head to tail. And those “cat-fox” teeth are amazing! But …
“By looking at its DNA, we could tell it apart from the European wildcat, Felis silvestris silvestris. It’s close to the African forest cat, Felis silvestris lybica, but its exact identity is still to be determined,” Benedetti adds.
Maureen Cofflard, “Corsica’s ‘cat-fox’: On the trail of what may be a new species” at Phys.org
The odd thing is that no data are offered to the public as to why the subject is not just a “feral cat,” a cat who lives around but not with humans. How much do the genetic differences matter? If the cat-fox found itself among feral cats, would it just blend in? If it would, why doesn’t that matter to classification?

To what extent has the “biological species concept” become a mere means of generating publicity for research or political action for environmental causes? The research and causes are doubtless worthwhile but we still seek an informative classification method.
By the way, this cat can’t be related to the fox. No one specifically makes that claim but it is left hanging.
See also: Researchers: Purebred dogs are not biological species
and
A physicist looks at biology’s problem of “speciation” in humans
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I was told by a friend of mine that cats have never been “domesticated”. They’re simply wild animals that choose to live near humans to get the free food. Assuming they are “domesticated”, cats were the LAST animal domesticated. When humans started storing big piles of grain in anticipation of turning it into Beer (the cause of Civilization), cats began wandering in to hunt the rats and mice trying to eat the Beer makin’s, thus creating “barn cats”. For millennia, Barn Cats were MUCH more common than House Cats. So is this just another Barn Cat?
For sure, it’s just another cat. The way humans produced the fireside kitty was to handle and feed young kittens so that they do not see humans as enemies; quite the opposite. It helps if their mom is domestic too because she encourages the humans to do that. Not all animals will respond that way. But the domestic cat is an exception. One way of looking at it is, you become Mommy Kitty for the rest of the kitten’s life.
Cats are proof for alien life,
🙂
Images for alien cats
https://www.google.com/search?q=alien+cats&tbm=isch&source=hp&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv046bl_jiAhVIF6wKHYh4AykQsAR6BAgGEAE&biw=1593&bih=770
Are there really separate species of cats? If so why do we observe so many behavioral similarities between the different “species?”
Take as on example the “love bite.” A few years ago, for example, a neighbor’s cat Checkers (he was called that because of his large, squarish looking, black and white spots) use to come over to visit me and my cat. Because Checkers owner’s husband was allergic to cats (at least that is what he claimed) Checkers was not allowed in their house, though he did have a cat door so he could use to go in and out of their unheated garage. So it was a real treat for Checkers, especially during the winter, to come over for a visit. He would get my attention by banging up against the outside screen door and I would let him in. Thankfully he knew enough to do this just during the day and not in the middle of the night.
While at first he was little stand-offish over time he became very affectionate. One of the ways he showed his affection towards me to give me a gentle love bite on the hand. I had to be very trusting because Checkers was a very large and dominant alpha male who could more than hold his own in a fight. My cat was his little buddy who, on more than one occasion, he went out of his way to protect. Ironically, even though my cat gave me love bites I didn’t trust him the way I did Checkers. My cat would first give me a hand hug by wrapping his front paws around my hand and then bite it really hard! He didn’t ever break the skin but it did hurt. I was afraid one time he would go too far.
The following video shows a very similar love bite behavior on the part of another wild species of large cat towards a naturalist who has befriended them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1sFPqO9tRQ
I see the same behaviors that I see in a common house cat. What do you think?
This guy is either very courageous or totally nuts. I thinks it’s more the latter than the former. Apparently that’s what he concedes.
I’ve never seen any good reason to change from the definition of old: if they produce viable offspring, they’re the same species.
The main problem for Darwinists is not the fact that they have never demonstrated the origination of a new species in the first place,,,
,,, instead the main problem for Darwinists is that they, with their reductive materialistic framework, lack the wherewithal to even define what a species truly is in the first place,,,
In other words, if something is not composed of particles or does not have physical properties (e.g., mass, energy, orientation, position, etc), it is abstract, i.e., spiritual. Numbers, mathematics, logic, truth, distance, time, beauty, ugliness, species, person, information, etc.. etc.. fall in that category. It is amazing how many things fall in that category even though most of us, including scientists, swear they exist physically.