A Michael Broad Blog
The fishing cat got its name for the obvious reason that they are the only wild cat species that truly specialises in catching fish and other aquatic wildlife in natural water courses. That’s their skill but the experts still don’t know enough about them. This lack of comprehensive knowledge, by the way, applies to …
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 are records of the fishing cat killing chital fawns, and hens and ducks are not infrequently preyed upon. They are …
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 cat has been extirpated in Indonesia. This follows, they say, the extinction of the Bali Tiger in the 1930s and …
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, there were a number of other suitable wild cat candidates who could have become the ancestor of the modern-day domestic …
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 as a rudder and it can swim for considerable distances under water. This is a small to medium sized wild …
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, which can be refined by anyone willing and able. The video in this section shows how to use Google My …
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 civet is a part. The fishing cat belongs to a group that all have similar markings particularly on and around …
