Hyenas, mongooses and palm civets are some of the closest relatives to wild cats. In addition to the 40 species of the Felidae family, there are roughly 90 additional species that make up the catlike carnivorans of Feliformia. In this video, we'll take a look at the 6 families most closely related to wild cats, their most interesting species and where they're found.

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00:00 Intro
00:33 Malagasy Mongooses
02:36 Mongooses
05:20 Hyenas
08:16 Viverrids
10:31 African Palm Civet
10:54 Asiatic Linsangs

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Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

Animal Diversity
https://animaldiversity.org/
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliformia
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Fossa
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/anima...
RedTailed Vontsira
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Hyena social behaviour
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/20...
Hyena direct kills
https://www.awf.org/wildlifeconserva...
Striped hyena group behaviour
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...
Viverrids & the spotted linsang
https://www.britannica.com/animal/viv...

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