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Research overview: fishing cat activity patterns and movement
OverviewThis overview examines the activity and ranging behavior of the fishing cat, drawn from telemetry and camera-trap studies. The species is predominantly nocturnal and crepuscular, concentrating activit…
Research overview: fishing cat camera-trap monitoring in wetlands
OverviewThe fishing cat is a wetland-dependent felid of South and Southeast Asia, adapted to hunting in marshes, mangroves, and along waterways, and camera traps are central to monitoring its scattered, decli…
Research overview: fishing cat diet and piscivory
OverviewTrue to its name, the fishing cat is among the most piscivorous of felids, and this overview synthesizes diet studies confirming that fish form a major part of its diet, supplemented by rodents, birds…
Research overview: fishing cat distribution in South and Southeast Asian wetlands
OverviewThe fishing cat is a wetland specialist found in scattered populations across South and Southeast Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, and parts of Southeast Asia, with strongholds in m…
Research overview: fishing cat semi-aquatic adaptations
OverviewThe fishing cat shows clear adaptations to a semi-aquatic life, and this overview reviews them. The species has partially webbed forefeet, a deep-chested, muscular body, a short tail that may act as a…
Research overview: fishing cat wetlands, coastal change, and sea-level rise
OverviewThe fishing cat is a wetland-dependent felid of South and Southeast Asia, reliant on marshes, mangroves, and waterways that are among the habitats most exposed to climate change and human conversion.…
Research overview: fishing cats in agricultural wetlands and human conflict
OverviewMuch fishing cat habitat now lies within human-dominated wetlands, including rice paddies, fish farms, and the marshy fringes of villages, and this overview reviews research on these populations. Came…
Research overview: fishing cats in the Sundarbans and mangrove systems
OverviewThe mangrove forests of the Sundarbans and other deltas hold important fishing cat populations, and this overview compiles research from these systems. Tidal mangroves offer abundant fish, crabs, and…
Research overview: reproductive technology for fishing cats
OverviewThe fishing cat, a wetland-dependent small felid, has been the subject of reproductive research aimed at supporting captive populations. This overview surveys what is known about fishing cat reproduct…
Research overview: swimming and aquatic locomotion in fishing cats and tigers
OverviewAlthough many cats avoid water, some are capable swimmers, and a few hunt in it. This overview surveys aquatic locomotion in felids, focusing on the fishing cat, whose partially webbed paws and water-…
Research overview: wetland loss as the primary threat to fishing cats
OverviewThis overview synthesizes evidence that wetland destruction and degradation are the overriding threats to the fishing cat. Drainage for agriculture and settlement, conversion to aquaculture, pollution…
Research synthesis: fishing cat conservation status
ReviewThis synthesis reviews the conservation standing of the fishing cat, widely regarded as threatened owing to its dependence on fast-disappearing wetlands. It weighs the dominant pressure of wetland los…