MAP: See Where Cats Wander

A new study by University of Illinois researchers has tracked 42 adult cats as they wandered around Urbana and Champaign, Illinois. One of the feral cats in the study, a mixed breed male, had a home range of 547 hectares (1,351 acres), the largest range of those tracked (red outline). A pet cat in the study, by contrast, stayed very close to home (yellow dot). Read the full story here .

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