This should specify native species. e.g. New Zealand has domestic cats present, but no native cats.
How many species are there in total?
Colourblind person here. The top and bottom of your scale are exactly the same colour to me, so all I know is which countries are in the middle.
Iriomote is an island in southern Japan that has a local native cat species, the Iriomote Jima Neko
I guess we count pet cats but not people who keep pet tigers.
I know much of Europe has the Euraisan Lynx and the European Wildcat plus naturally feral domestic house cats.
It is hard to tell how these are counted with the color coding.
Might I suggest a color scale that goes from white = none to a single color of increasing darkness for more. This way it would be readable for color blind persons and would not imply that the middle value is neutral.
Hard to know if your data is accurate without knowing its source.
I’m assuming the 1 in the UK is the Scottish Wildcats, and the handful of escaped leopards and lynx aren’t counted.
What is the source of your data ?
At a glance, and knowing a fair bit about Chile, I’m not understanding what feline species Argentina has that Chile does not.
I would guess the data is wrong for one of those two countries (or I could be wrong, but without a source there’s no way for me to check)
Netherlands has one native wild cat species; the European wildcat is established in the southern province of Limburg and native to that region.
Now tbf with the UK, were not even sure if the Scottish wildcat population still exists due to feral cats
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This should specify native species. e.g. New Zealand has domestic cats present, but no native cats.
How many species are there in total?
Colourblind person here. The top and bottom of your scale are exactly the same colour to me, so all I know is which countries are in the middle.
Iriomote is an island in southern Japan that has a local native cat species, the Iriomote Jima Neko
I guess we count pet cats but not people who keep pet tigers.
I know much of Europe has the Euraisan Lynx and the European Wildcat plus naturally feral domestic house cats.
It is hard to tell how these are counted with the color coding.
Might I suggest a color scale that goes from white = none to a single color of increasing darkness for more. This way it would be readable for color blind persons and would not imply that the middle value is neutral.
Hard to know if your data is accurate without knowing its source.
I’m assuming the 1 in the UK is the Scottish Wildcats, and the handful of escaped leopards and lynx aren’t counted.
What is the source of your data ?
At a glance, and knowing a fair bit about Chile, I’m not understanding what feline species Argentina has that Chile does not.
I would guess the data is wrong for one of those two countries (or I could be wrong, but without a source there’s no way for me to check)
Netherlands has one native wild cat species; the European wildcat is established in the southern province of Limburg and native to that region.
Now tbf with the UK, were not even sure if the Scottish wildcat population still exists due to feral cats
India: full of kitties! I had no idea.
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