Subtypes

The Zanzibar Kivuuli shows features of both the Tundra and the Dykuma  and is theorized to have risen from interbreeding between the two. Mostly found in cold deserts and milder tundra rather than polar regions like the Tundra Kivuuli.

Their fur is short, but very dense and thick and fluffy, having a coarser outer layer and a soft and fluffy inner layer.

The spine lengths are very similar between the genders, like a Desert Kivuuli, and they have both the Desert Kivuuli like webbed dewclaw and downward pointing Tundra Kivuuli spur.

They are small, wirey, fast, and nomadic, skittish, and elusive. They live in small colonies that follow their prey from place to place.

They come in faded browns, creams and sometimes faint goldens with faint spotting being the most common. The coloration is somewhat similar to the now extinct Zanzibar Leopard, and thus that is how the breed got its name.

Zanzibars are fairly rare, since Desert and Tundra Kivuuli only cross paths during climate changes; and the Zanzibar have far enough removed from both breeds to be considered a breed of their own rather than just a cross.

They are often called Zanzi or Zanzis for short.