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Ancestor: Wild Forest Cat

Size: Smallest: 50 cm (65 cm with tail), Largest:  75 cm (100 cm with tail)

Dietary Needs: Mix of rabbits, mice, birds and lizards.

Life Cycle: Females only go into oestrus cycles in the spring and early summer. They mate with males in spring and the male has no involvement in reproduction beyond that. Pregnant females will find a secluded place to nest and nurse her kittens.

Kittens of smaller species are often fully independent long before the year is out, but females still typically have one litter per year, unless she loses her first litter early in the year. Winter is usually a thinning out period for the summer kittens now adults, with lowered productivity and even small chances of snow or ice, it's the season under which no cat attempts to have kittens.

Other: They have a strong but flexible spine and are able to turn around in tight, cramped spaces. Some species are more "squishy" than others, particularly those that rely on hunting rabbits in their burrows more often than other species. They have the greatest need to be able to enter as small a burrow as possible, and also to avoid injury from the rabbit in a narrow space.

They are very energetic and use their bendy body to feign movements and confuse threats as well as out-manoeuvre them.  They also move their heads up, down and side-to-side to triangulate the source of sound with their sharp sense of hearing. Their vision works best at night or in darkened spaces.

There is a sociality gradient across this genus. Terracats are more likely to have hunting companions, usually no more than three adults in a group. They may or may not be mates. One cat will sometimes flush out rabbits from their burrow, while the other one or two camp outside the rabbit's other exits. They then share the catch (usually). Species that are more arboreal such as treecats won't cooperate nor will they share.