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Cat Flea
Ctenocephalides felis
Cat Flea is an indexed AnimalDex species with a field profile connected to live captures, canonical stats, and collection progress.
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Mammal · Cat Flea habitat data is maintained · Relatively common
Known for: Recognized in AnimalDex as Cat Flea, Indexed profile #2214
Understand the animal
Understand the Cat Flea
Factual biology first: what this animal is like, where it lives, how it survives, and why those traits exist.
Introduction to Cat Flea
Why?Adaptations and biological abilities
Why?- Recognized in AnimalDex as Cat Flea
- Indexed profile #2214
Why does Cat Flea behave this way?
Why?- Take bold leaps when opportunities arise.
Why Cat Flea habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.?
Why?Habitat: Cat Flea habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Native range: Cat Flea habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Native range
Natural range, not this specific capture location.
Cat Flea habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Why this diet?
Why?Cat Flea depends mostly on animal protein. Cats are meat-focused hunters, even when they live in domestic settings rather than wild ones.
- Meat-based prey or complete meat-forward domestic food
- Small mammals and birds when hunting is possible
- Animal tissue rather than plant-heavy food sources
Wild context, owner care, and access to outdoor prey all affect exactly what an individual cat eats.
Conservation and rarity
Why?Rarity: Relatively common · 5/100. AnimalDex canonical rarity score: 5/100, maintained by the live indexed species profile.
- Observe from a respectful distance and avoid changing the animal's behavior.
- Do not block feeding, shelter, nesting, or travel routes.
- Use a live camera capture without handling or staging wildlife.
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Where to find them
Where to find Cat Flea
To find Cat Flea in the wild, focus on the exact habitat patches that match its body design and daily behavior, not just the broad country where it exists. You usually do better by working one good piece of habitat inside cat Flea habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide. than by covering too much ground.
Animal field guide
Cat Flea
Cat Flea is an indexed AnimalDex species with a field profile connected to live captures, canonical stats, and collection progress.
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Native range
Natural range, not this capture location
Cat Flea habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Search near meAnimalDex stats
Dominance
5
Speed
20
Size
1
Intelligence
10
Rarity
5%
Total
41
Size scale
Scientific name
Ctenocephalides felis
Category
Mammal
Habitat
Cat Flea habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
Rarity
Relatively common · 5/100
Native range
Cat Flea habitat data is maintained in the live AnimalDex field guide.
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