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Do fishing cats sometimes prey on livestock? I cannot find a clean answer but my distinct impression is, yes, this powerful and stocky small to medium-size wildcat does occasionally prey on livestock. Certainly, there...
This young Cambodian woman wanted to make money on YouTube by filming herself skinning, cooking and eating a young Fishing Cat and other rare protected species in Cambodia.
National Geographic tell us that extensive camera trap surveys in key fishing cat habitats have failed to produce one positive sighting of this medium-sized, water-loving wild cat species. They therefore believe that the fishing...
The DNA of all domestic cats has no trace of any wild cat species other than the African wildcat (also Near Eastern wildcat and Arabian wildcat – felis silvestris lybica). However, 10,000 years ago,...
Overview The fishing cat is a specialist swimmer and hunter in, on and around water. Its name reflects its skills. This cat has partially webbed feet, is strongly built, has a tail that acts...
The fishing cat was considered by early taxonomists to look like the Indian civet, a cat-like creature. For this reason the scientists named this cat, Prionailurus viverrinus, after the viverrid family of which the...
The range of the Asian Fishing cat is shown in the customised, embedded Google map below. Please click on the following link (which opens in a new window) to go to the original map,...
