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Fishing Cat - Prionailurus viverrinus
Fishing Cats- Prionailurus viverrinus are strongly associated with wetlands, typically inhabit swamps and marshy areas, around oxbow lakes, reed beds, tidal creeks and in mangrove forests; they seem less abundant around smaller, fast-moving watercourses. Most records are from lowland areas.
The fishing cat is a medium-sized wild cat of South and Southeast Asia. In 2008, the IUCN classified the fishing cat as ''Endangered'' since they are concentrated primarily in wetland habitats, which are increasingly being settled, degraded and converted. Over the last decade, the fishing cat population throughout much of its Asian range declined severely.
Like its closest relative, the leopard cat, the fishing cat lives along rivers, streams and mangrove swamps. It is well adapted to.. more
