In its native environment, the Wild cat is adaptable to a variety of habitat types such as savanna, open forest and steppe. They also inhabit moor land, with pasture, scrub and forests in Scotland, north of Edinburgh and Glasgow, but not on the islands.
Wild cats make lairs in a foxes earth, under tree trunks, in hollow trees, in bracken or in a deserted buzzards nest. The wild cat is an obligate carnivore, like all felines and consumes almost every part of any kill it makes; the coat providing roughage, the bones calcium and the meat everything else, in fact they rarely need to drink because meat has such a high water content.
The Wildcat often carries parasitic worms in its gut and will eat long blades of grass to help clear out its system and probably also to obtain certain necessary acids not present in meat.
It is a hunter of small mammals, birds, rabbits, hares and game and other creatures of a similar size. They sometimes scavenge and cache prey to return to it later.
The Wild cat is extremely timid. It avoids approaching human settlements. The wild cat lives solitarily and holds a territory of about 3 kilometres squared. Males overlap ranges with females, however, females will not overlap ranges with other females.
