“…This is the paradigmatic case of the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris), an emblematic feline that has been the target of several studies on its ecology (e.g. [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15]) and especially, on its problematic hybridization with domestic cats [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]. Today, it is assumed to be an endangered taxa in most of the countries in which it lives [28].…”