Having the form or shape of a cat; resembling a cat in structure or appearance.
From Latin feles (cat) plus -form (from forma, meaning shape). This scientific descriptor was created to describe organisms with cat-like characteristics.
Feliform is one half of the great Carnivora divide—while feliformes are the sleek, ambush hunters with retractable claws, caniforms are the pursuits hunters. It's a fundamental split in how predators evolved 40 million years ago.
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