felidae

No, felid refers to a member of the felidae family.

It could be done, and similarly divergent Felidae have mostly domestic cat breeds with substantial non housecat ancestry, like Bengals.

Cougars(/pumas/mountain lions) are also interesting because they're not big cats, taxonomically speaking, so potentially the entire felidae family is in play, and it's pretty big.

Perhaps cats during that period were predominantly dry desert hunters - it is a common niche for felidae - and that environment produces checks wristwatch few fossils.

Leopards, and most members of the Felidae (cat) family, are sentient, and we hunted some members of this family to near extinction because of accounts like these.

Actually, scratch that: cats (felidae) are also extinct, replaced by leopards, cheetahs, servals, house cats, etc.

It's autosomal dominant at high frequency, so it would be easy to increase all the way to fixation with a little selective breeding (and that also implies, along with the widespreadness of catnip response in the Felidae family, that catnip response isn't harmful).

This artist has also released music under the name of Aliceffekt Sorry to break it to you but Doja Cat doesn't have any relation to the Felidae family of mammals You know, writing under a pseudonym was also the norm about a century ago.

Further, catnip response across all of the Felidae species is super-inconsistent, with very far flung species showing some catnip response but also closely-related species showing very different responses; if it's under selection, they ought to be similar, and anyway, there may or may not be catnip where Felis lybica grew up, but then what about South American felines half a world away...?

Some do, like the word "cat," which does (more or less) correspond to a monophyletic group, Felidae.

The statement about meaning "any big cat" I would guess to be a confusion based on the name Pantherinae for the subfamily of Felidae of which all these big cats are part.

“felid” comes from “Felidae”, the family for cats.

A cat and a lion both qualify as “cats” (felidae), but if you tell me I will share my room with a cat and I end up with a lion I think you will agree that I have both a right to complain and be somewhat surprised.

They are more scary the same way a tiger is more scary than a cat even though both are Felidae.

I do not really know how cat classification works, so maybe I miss some basic knowledge of the Felidae?

I'm not a biologist, but the lack of that gene is very conserved across all Felidae, I think (i.e.