What affects us affects cats
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).
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 world’s two most damaging natural products with respect to forests are: palm oil and natural rubber. The once vast, natural and ancient forests of Asia and Africa are inhabited by many precious wild species including notable wild cat species such as the Sumatran tiger, the Borneo bay cat, the African golden cat and …
