 扁头豹猫
Categories
Sector: the animal world
Door: Chordata door
Amon: Amon vertebrate
Class: Mammalia
Head: Carnivora
Section: cat
Are: leopard cat is
Alias: flat head cat
Flat head is rare and rare leopard cat small cats. Their long, narrow head, the forehead is also a bit flat, and longer snout, looked more like a civet cats rather than subjects. Flat head leopard cat and domestic cat about the same size, length 45-60cm. A longer length of their bodies, but the relatively short legs and tail, leg and some vague stripes. Their hair is soft and dense, reddish brown head hair, and body hair is dark brown. Their mouth, cheeks, chin hair is still white belly, abdomen and sometimes also some dark brown spots. Flat head leopard cat's eyes round and large, very close distance between the eyes so that we can help them maximize the binocular vision. Both sides of their nose and eyes have a white stripe below, and also the _set_ with two dark brown cheeks of the lines (like a lot of cats are like this color it). Flat head cat leopard cats molars and other larger and more pointed than it seems, so they can smooth the water firm to bite those who do not have to worry about their prey slip away. Their ears small, rounded tip, and their wide forehead with it, so their appearance does look a bit unusual it. Flat head is relatively small leopard cat's paws, claws long, narrow pad, there is little webbed toes connected. Another characteristic is that their claws and leopard, fishing cat, and the like, can not fully recover the claw sheath, which cats do not how common family.
Leopard cat on the flat head of human understanding more than cats of Borneo gold not where to go (almost none). We can only guess that they probably live close to the water and the rain forests of tropical shrubs, distribution areas, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore and Brunei. In 1985, Malaysia has announced that the extinction from Malaysia, but later found that a small group of remaining humans still surrounded by the tenacious survival of rats for food. Do not know how the situation of the survivors now. Most of the countries of their distribution area protection measures, but they can still be hunted in Singapore (do not know whether still the case), while in Brunei there is no corresponding legal protection for their survival.
Wild leopard cat is a little flat head that can be discovered by us. They are believed to prey at night or twilight, and according to the flat head of the dead cat was found in the anatomy, their primary food source of many aquatic organisms such as fish, shrimp, frogs, etc., of course, including birds and rodents . After the flat head of captive leopard cat observation, they are very loved playing in the water, submerged the entire head will catch something on the water, such as steak or toys. I heard that they even like a raccoon washing in the water.
In reproductive characteristics, the cat's gestation period is about 56 days, each child would be able to students 1-4 baby. Baby big cat coat color seems similar, but slightly off gray, and to a year or so, the baby's coat on and the big cats the same.
Flat head cat was threatening the survival of the main water pollution (water pollution will kill countless species, but ah) and deforestation. Also, with the continuous expansion of human _set_tlements on the waterways of the landfill will be a threat to rare animals that rely on water to survive. Rare in the wild that human beings can not informed of their populations, the human will in 1975, although they are included in cites appendix i, but this does not change the water pollution and habitat loss, and so the bad situation, so placed in the road before them still as narrow and difficult ... ... |
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