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The jungle cat is typically diurnal and hunts throughout the day. Its activity tends to decrease during the hot noon hours. It rests in burrows, grass thickets and scrubs. It often sunbathes on winter days. Jungle cats have been estimated to walk 3–6 km (1.9–3.7 mi) at night, although this likely varies depending on the availability of prey.
Common name Scientific name (authority) Preferred habitat IUCN status Range Family Felidae: cats: Asian golden cat: Catopuma temminckii Vigors & Horsfield, 1827: Forest, savanna, shrubland and grassland NT: Jungle cat: Felis chaus Schreber, 1777: Particularly around wetlands LC: Clouded leopard: Neofelis nebulosa Griffith, 1821: Forest and ...
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population [a] Clouded leopard. N. nebulosa (Griffith, 1821) Scattered Southeast Asia and southern China (current in red, historical range in green) Size: 69–108 cm (27–43 in) long, 61–91 cm (24–36 in) tail [80] Habitat: Forest and shrubland [81]
Common name Scientific name Authority Preferred habitat IUCN status Range Family Felidae: cats: Asian golden cat: Catopuma temminckii Vigors & Horsfield, 1827: Forest, savanna, shrubland, & grassland NT: Jungle cat: Felis chaus Schreber, 1777: Particularly around wetlands LC: Clouded leopard: Neofelis nebulosa Griffith, 1821: Forest & shrubland ...
The largest is the jungle cat with a head and body length from 62 to 76 cm (24 to 30 in). [ 1 ] Genetic studies indicate that the Felinae genera Felis , Otocolobus and Prionailurus diverged from a Eurasian progenitor of the Felidae about 6.2 million years ago, and that Felis species split off 3.04 to 0.99 million years ago.
Puma (/ ˈ p j uː m ə / or / ˈ p uː m ə /) is a genus in the family Felidae whose only extant species is the cougar (also known as the puma, mountain lion, and panther, [2] among other names), and may also include several poorly known Old World fossil representatives (for example, Puma pardoides, or Owen's panther, a large, cougar-like cat of Eurasia's Pliocene).
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 word pardofelis is composed of the Latin words pardus , and felis (cat) in allusion to the spots of the type species, the marbled cat. [4]
The name is a Greek word for fox ("bassaris") with a Latinized diminutive ending ("-iscus"). [6] The genus was named by Elliott Coues in 1887, having previously been described by Lichtenstein in 1830 under the name Bassaris. Coues proposed the word "bassarisk" as the English term for animals in this genus. [7]