Scientific name:
Prionailurus viverinus

Natural spread:
India

in front and rear-India, on Sumatra and Java, the fish-cat is given a home. it is the biggest representative of the Bengalkatzenverwandten. its shape penetrated, the tail short. it possesses a dully gray one fur, that scored points gloomily, until olivbraunes. At the back, the coloring is darker than at the flanks.

Nutrition One can only take the name Fischkatze that this small-cat loves moist abidance-areas, not however, that it lives mainly from fish. How all its relatives preferentially also it small-mammals and birds, who hunt it predominantly on the ground. it is an excellent swimmer, who also dives very gladly for cancers and water-snails. Nothing known is over the free-life of the fish-cat.

Endangering Until now, the fish-cat seems not to yet be endangered that however an increasing threat goes from the onward destruction of its habitat from.