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The Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) is a medium-sized wild cat native to the northeastern Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and China.It has been listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2008, and is threatened by poaching and habitat destruction, since Southeast Asian forests are undergoing the world's fastest regional deforestation.
Catopuma is a genus of the Felidae containing two small cat species native to Southeast Asia, the Asian golden cat (C. temminckii) and the bay cat (C. badia). [1] Both have similar pelage, with solid reddish brown coloration on their backs and darker markings on the head. They also exhibit colour morphs ranging from various browns to gray to black.
Pardofelis is a genus of the cat family Felidae. [2] This genus is defined as including one species native to Southeast Asia: the marbled cat. [3] Two other species, formerly classified to this genus, now belong to the genus Catopuma.
The new habitat is also home to two species that have never before been on display at the Fort Worth Zoo. ‘A beautiful new home’: Big cats return to Fort Worth Zoo as new habitat opens to ...
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Felis badia was the scientific name proposed by John Edward Gray in 1874, who first described a bay cat skin and skull collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1856 in Sarawak. This cat was first thought to be a kitten of an Asian golden cat. [3] In 1932, Reginald Innes Pocock placed the species in the monotypic genus Badiofelis. [4]
The Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica ornata), also known as the Indian desert cat, is an African wildcat subspecies that occurs from the eastern Caspian Sea north to Kazakhstan, into western India, western China and southern Mongolia.
A wild African cat seen wandering a suburban Ohio neighborhood has been captured and is being cared for by the Cincinnati Zoo, officials say. Animal control workers responded to a call about a ...