the Katzenfrette possesses a marten-good shape more than body-long tail with big ears and one. The fur is brightly reddish-brown on the back with blackish Melierung, that is to be led back on black-pointed-y Grannenhaare. The underside is creamy until gray-knows colored, the tail black-and-white-like-gray crosswise-curled and densely hairy. they are approximately cat-big with a length of approximately 60-100 cm and weigh between 800 and 1300 g.
Tribal-history The Katzenfrette come Central America-niches Katzenfrett or Jentinfrett (Bassariscus sumuchrasti) with two types, the northern or North American Katzenfrett (Bassariscus astutus) and the southern, in North America east the Mississippi and Central America before. In South-Mexico, the spread-areas overlap. These most original representatives of the family hardly differ from its young-tertiary predecessors so that one can consider it "living fossils." So, also many of its biological data then indicate an early development-stand. Is particularly reminded on the denture, that occurs in the original carnivore-form (carnivores), here.
Shape The fourteen subtypes of the northern and the five subtypes of the southern Katzenfretts differ only unimportantly of each other. So, the coloring of the southern form is somewhat dimmer. With the North American Katzenfrett, the claws are partially re-ductile, with the southern cousin, the second and the fifth toe are hairy, with exception of the Tastbeere.
Occurrences The northern Katzenfrett prefers half-dry biotopes as far as to a height of 3300 m; most of all, rocky plateaus with sprinkled in tree-groups and amply undergrowth like to be for it. The southern form moves on the other hand writes poetry, moist forests before and lives in particularly the trees of its habitat as a good climber.
Nutrition The Katzenfrette are night-animals, who only appear sunbathing also in the early morning before its Unterschlupfen as an exception. they live from rodents, insects and birds as well as from vegetable food like berries, wild fruits and fresh corn. its animal loot doesn't catch the Katzenfrett through a rush but it, it stalks, overpowers it in the jump and kills it through one head-bite. It lets this type of the pursues and the extraordinarily big skill, with which the Katzenfrette around-balance in rough terrain and on trees, clearly appear to its names.
Way of life The Katzenfrette don't live in very deep, but relatively narrow caves with very small in-hole. An elevated hillside or tree-situation, water-proximity and dense, thorny undergrowth in immediate surroundings is the prerequisite for the location-election of the animals. The caves are padded soft with plant-material.
The sleep-attitude of the Katzenfretts in this cave resembles the silence-situation of the Bilche very much: rolled in vertically or sideways densely pressed with the head between the front-paws at the breast. About the whole shape, the tail lies down as warm blankets. With very warm weather, the animals also sleep gladly outstretched on the back.
However, Katzenfrette look quite also for the proximity of the human being where they move in on attics and in barns and make myself through the catch of mice and locusts extraordinarily useful, yes it partially even becomes very trustful until tame. In its natural habitat, Katzenfrette live in astonishing "population-density", even if einzelgängerisch outside the heat-time. So, densities of eight animals are no rarity on one square-kilometer. they are very location-faithfully and live on under three square-kilometers in relatively small precincts.
The precinct-borders mark it at showy places with its urine, that however as warning-brand against Artgenossen, luring on sex-partners works.
Reproduction During the combination-time, that calls for the northern type in April, for which falls southern in January, itself males and females with long, modulated, cat-similar screams. In May until June, as well as. in March or April with the southern type, comes to the world, that only approximately 30 g are easily, three to four thin-haired, unseeing kids.
On the fleshy tail, the future Streifung of the tail is to already be recognized as dark pigmentation. The boys stand more quietly with the mother through continuous series, chirping sounds in voice-contact.
Although the boys are suckled for months in four, they leave the construction with the mother already with eight weeks together and accompany it to the hunt. Finally, the family dissolves in the late-night-autumn.
Enemy-behavior The Katzenfrett has only few enemies, like eagle-owl and red-lynx. Also the human being doesn't follow it since it is not of any economic importance and makes myself as Schädlingsvertilger useful. If it is driven into the narrowness, a chopped off one pushes, stuttering Bellen from, the tail-hair resists, so that appears this thicker than the body of the animal, and ungerichtet empties a stinking secretion from its anus-bags from time to time. Usually, however, it decides on the escape in any tree, that it climbs nimbly thanks to its sharp claws and escapes the clutches of the enemy skillfully so.
Continuance While the North American Katzenfrett is frequent everywhere, the continuance-numbers of the Central America-niches Katzenfretts go because of from habitat-destructions back.
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