Most interactions between mother rusty-spotted cats and their young are play-oriented which is crucial to locomotion development.
Play has been observed between rusty-spotted cat siblings and between the young and mother, which appears crucial to locomotion development. Most interactions between the mother and young are play-oriented.
In one case, a mother rusty-spotted cat died when her offspring was only 5 weeks old. The kitten never learned to climb downwards headfirst and continued to climb down backwards indicating extended juvenile learning periods occur.
• Image | © Tambako the Jaguar (Emmanuel Keller), All Rights Reserved
• Sources | (Dmoch, 1997; Miles, 2013)
