It’s remarkable to realise that we still know very little about the bay cat which is only found in Borneo and where the forests – this small wild cat’s habitat – have been and continue to be cut down. It is also referred to as the Borneo bay cat. In 1883, Daniel Giraud Elliot …
The important news about this rare wild cat species is that its habitat has been and continues to be systematically destroyed by human exploitation to make a range of products (see map below). Around 20 years ago in 2002, Fiona Sunquist (WIld Cats of the World) described this cat as “the world’s least known …
This is an excellent camera trap photograph of a rare small wild cat, the Borneo bay cat (‘bay cat’). Even today, specialists with great knowledge of the small while cat species don’t know enough about this cat but there is one thing which is known and that is their habitat is being destroyed on …
The Borneo Bay cat is about the size of a large domestic cat weighing on average around 6 kg (males) and 4 kg (females).
The Borneo Bay cat range, as at 2009, is presented in a Google My Maps map below. The range may have shrunk a little as at 2019, the date of republishing this page. This cat is also called the Bornean cat or Bay cat. The purpose behind presenting the range in a Google map …
Bornean Bay Cat – Photograph copyright Jim Sanderson, Ph.D – Please respect copyright. Below is a cleaned up and labelled version (this page has been upgraded on 4th July 2018): Introduction The “bay cat” is the world’s least know cat (felid). It is only found on the island of Borneo and that island is …
The bay cat is approximately the same size as a large domestic cat but with a longer tail (see wild cat species by size). This cat looks similar to, but is smaller than, the Asiatic golden cat. The bay cat has two “color phases” (a genetic variation in the color of the fur). In …
