Fast facts
Name: Asian Golden Cat (Catopuma Temminkii)
Where does he live: China, Nepal, South -East Asia and North -East India
What eats: Birds, reptiles, small mammals, such as rodents and larger mammals, such as young deer
The Asian Golden Cat, also known as the Asian Golden Cat or the Cat of Temminka, is a cat, endemic for some of the most dense forests of Asia. This is included in A wide color paletteIt digs birds before eating them, and despite weighing no more than 35 pounds (16 kilograms), or two or three times more than a domestic cat – Bold enough to kill Premaries, such as buffalo, small mongzhaki and babies.
Although he prefers to hunt the ground, the Asian Golden Cat can also rise to trees. He kills a large prey with a strong bite in the neck, wandering subtropical and tropical forests at different times of the day. While the researchers thought for a long time that the Asian golden cats of night, later data indicate that these cats have irregular activity models What can Peak at duskField
The species can live up to 20 years and at heights from sea level to 14 050 feet (4282 meters), according to Biodegrading Survey of 2016 In Butan. This survey and other Showing the Asian gold cats living at very high altitudes, suggest that the highlands can be an important habitat for this species.
Asian golden cats were also discovered in open areas with rocky tracts, and they are even known as “rocky cats” in some parts ChinaAccording to ISEC. Their ranges are about 20% more than that Cloud leopard (Neophelis nebula), despite the fact that two types showing similar behavior and overlapping in their distribution.
But as a result, their preferences in forest habitats, Asian gold cats are especially vulnerable to deletion, which caused a huge loss of habitat for the species. According to ISEC, in the forests of Southeast Asia there is one of the highest indicators of dexterity in the world from the expansion of such agricultural crops as oilseed palm, coffee and rubber.
Asian golden cats also threaten illegally hunting their skins and bones that are used in traditional medicine, and for their meat, which is considered a delicacy in some regions, according to ISEC. Where Asian golden cats come into contact with cattle, such as sheep and goats, predators sometimes kill animal farmers, which leads to murders of retaliation, says society.
