The Fishing Cat

The Fishing Cat is found in the north of India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thai-land and on the half-island of Sumatra and Java, where the documents show, the cat in the population to be critical distance. It is often not in the areas near the water, like the swampy, marshes and land on the riverbank. It is a little larger than the Leopard Cat, to May, but the fishing cat has a head slightly larger in comparison to body size and a relatively short tail - the body is usually pressed for more and feet short. The coat is grey brown coloring primarily with smaller, less mottled dark brown or black brands. The forehead is clearly marked with a few lines from top to dark eyes of the crown before entering open marking on the shoulder.

As the name implies, is the fishing cat is a competent and fishermen are never found, away from the water - but the cat fish show a preference for the reduction to slow or static sources of water, bogs and wet fields margins to reduce speed River or stream edges. The observations were made by the fishing cat with two methods Fang, while - primarily through the fish with their paws on the water and radically different from the water to the fish with their pines. Clearly, the cat fishing is a strong swimmer, but not on the feet palms as it was proposed, however, together with his neighbors, the flat-head of the cat, the claws are not fully covered when retracted. All cats, fisheries, there is on the basis of water and their prey on the mainland of rodents, the young deer and small wild pig. Recent research by the Fisheries feeding the cats in India has shown that the grass is also presented as part of the cat food source.