Highlander Cat Images Collection

Highlander Cat images - The Highlander (also known as the Highlander Shorthair, and originally as the Highland Lynx), is an experimental breed of cat. The unique appearance of the Highlander comes from the deliberate cross between the Desert Lynx and the Jungle Curl breeds, also recently developed. The latter of these has some non-domestic ancestry from two Asian small cat species, the leopard cat and jungle cat, making the Highlander nominally a feline hybrid, though its foundation stock is mostly domestic cat. (Wikipedia)

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Highlander Cat Images

By TAnthony - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50700838

By DigitalDirt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52013712

By DigitalDirt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52013711

By TAnthony - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50700839

Images of Highlander Cat

The Highland Lynx breed development began in 1993 as a variant of the Desert Lynx breed, crossed with the Jungle Curl to add the latter's curled ears. Although given a name that included "lynx", it is without any actual wild lynx (including bobcat) ancestry. Recognized by the Rare and Exotic Feline Registry under the name Highland Lynxes, the nascent breed is classified by REFR as part of the Desert Lynx breeding group, which also includes the Desert Lynx, Alpine Lynx, and Mojave Bob.
The Highlander breed refinement began in 2004, to distinguish the breed better from its foundation stock, and to seek competition status in major breed registries. The name Highlander was adopted in late 2005. Starting May 1, 2008, the breed was recognized by The International Cat Association (TICA) for competition in the Preliminary New Breed class, under the names Highlander Shorthair (HGS) and simply Highlander (HG) for the longer-haired variation.

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