possesses a typically feline shape the Bengalkatzen gave a home in Asia and is approximately house-cat-big. The fur is short and very dense, with the northern forms in the winter longer, it has dense sub-wool.
Coloring On the upper side, the coloring is silver-gray until pale-yellow with the mountain-animals as well as. until brown-yellow with the southern jungle-inhabitants. On the fur scattered finds we ring or rosette-stains with darker center. The island-forms are spotted. Forehead and necks have dark vertical stripes, the head white pre-eyes - and dark Ãœberaugenflecke. Stomach and legs are black spotted, the tail carries a dark top. The coloring of the Bengalkatzen follows the Glogerschen rule, after the animals in warm and moist areas darker than its Artgenossen of the cooler areas is colored. The Bengalkatzen therefore vary extraordinarily strongly in the look.
Way of life Over the way of life of the Bengalkatzen is only little known until now. According to all the appearance, they are twilight and night-animals like many other small-cats. The Bengalkatze prefers moist bush, forest, and grassland-ships and goes in the highland as far as into a height of 3000 m. it is narrow tied at the water and avoids pure dry-landscapes. Adult Bengalkatzen can swim very well. they often look for the water in order to put down there its excrement while young Bengalkatzen bury excrement and urine after cat-type.
Bengalkatzen are very shy animals, who escape on trees with danger, where extremely certainly it itself and sent moves. They can see excellently as twilight and night-animals and can hear.
Over the social-life of these small-cats is little known. Possibly, they are in pairs alive. They spend the day in tree-caves, crevices or dense, matted hedge.
Food Small mammals, particularly Nager, serve them as loot occasionally also young Muntjak-Hirsche and musk deer.
Reproduction After a Tragzeit of approximately 56 days, Bengalkatzen 2-4 boy bring to the world. The throw-times go down presumably in the different parts of its spread-area into different seasons.
Endangering The Bengalkatze becomes because of its fur of bejagt and is threatened already in its continuance. The export of the Indian subtypes is admittedly prohibited, however its protection is completely insufficient.
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