fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)

fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)

Prionailurus viverrinus (Chromolithography)
Richard Lydekker: "Cats and Carnivora", 1894

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The fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) is a medium-sized wild cat of South and Southeast Asia. Fishing cats live foremost in the vicinity of wetlands, along rivers, streams, oxbow lakes, in swamps and mangroves. The fishing cat is the state animal of West Bengal. The fishing cat is broadly but discontinuously distributed in Asia, and is primarily found in the Terai region of the Himalayan foothills in India and Nepal, in eastern India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.


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Description		fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) Prionailurus viverrinus (Chromolithography) Richard Lydekker: "Cats and Carnivora", 1894 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prionailurus_viverrinus_1.jpg The fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) is a medium-sized wild cat of South and Southeast Asia. Fishing cats live foremost in the vicinity of wetlands, along rivers, streams, oxbow lakes, in swamps and mangroves. The fishing cat is the state animal of West Bengal. The fishing cat is broadly but discontinuously distributed in Asia, and is primarily found in the Terai region of the Himalayan foothills in India and Nepal, in eastern India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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