Prionailurus bengalensis

Distribution: South and East Asia including Myanmar (recorded in most of the PAs and RF throughout the country). Remarks: This species is listed as a normally protected species of Myanmar.

Sumber: Mammals of Myanmar: an annotated checklist

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I as P. b. bengalensis (populations of India, Bangladesh, and Thailand); otherwise Appendix II; U. S. ESA – Endangered as P. b. bengalensis; IUCN – Least Concern.

Sumber: Order Carnivora

Distribution: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia (Far East), Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, and Vietnam.

Sumber: Order Carnivora

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Felis bengalensis bengalensis (except for Chinese population); otherwise Appendix II. U. S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Endangered as F. iriomotensis.

Sumber: Order Carnivora

Habitat. The broadest distribution ofall small Asian felids, extending from southern India to the islands on the Sunda Shelf and north to the Russian Far East. They are found in a great variety of forest types, from lowland tropical evergreen rainforest and rubber and oil palm plantations at sea level to moist temperate broadleaf and dry coniferous forests in the Himalayas at 3000 m. Also does well in successional habitats, shrub forest, farmlands, and on coastal islands. It is rarely found in cold steppe grasslands or arid areas. In Russia is commonly associated with river valleys, forested ravines and coastal habitats where the cover is deciduous broadleaf forest. Their small feet are not well adapted for moving in deep snow and they avoid areas where snow depth exceeds 10 cm. Radio-collared cats in Thailand’s Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary rarely visited the dry deciduous dipterocarp forest, a firemaintained habitat with little understory vegetation; they preferred mixed deciduous and dry evergreen forest habitats, especially those associated with watercourses. These habitats not only offered more cover but they also harbored more prey. Similarly, radio-tagged cats in Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, used the oil palm plantations just outside the Reserve more than expected, presumably because of the high density of Whitehead’s Rats, the cats’ principle prey.

Sumber: Felidae

Movements, Home range and Social organization. In the dry season at Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Sabah, radio-tagged males traveled an average of 1 - 72 km per night compared to 1 - 27 km for females; average distances traveled per night in the wet season decreased to 1: 06 km and 0 - 87 km, respectively. Males traveled faster and farther than females, but for both sexes, movement rates were higher in the first half of the night than in the second half. Movement rates for females tended to be slower because their travels were frequently punctuated with long periods of no movement, during which they were presumably sitting and waiting for prey. All observations (n = 67) in Tabin were of solitary individuals. The home ranges of four resident males varied from 2: 64 to 3 - 8 km ®. The ranges of two resident females measured 1 - 93 and 2 - 25 km *. Ranges of resident males overlapped those of one or more females. In Thailand, the mean home range size in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary was 4 - 33 km? (range 1 - 5 - 7 - 5 km *) and in Kaeng Krachan National Park it was 3 - 38 km? (range 2: 3 - 5 - 4 km? ®). On Tsuchima Island, Japan, the mean home range size was 0 - 83 km? ®. Differences in home range sizes are in part related to body size, as cats in Thailand are larger than those on the islands of Borneo and Tsuchima. The effects of differences in resource levels and other environmental conditions among the sites on home range sizes are not known. Some differences in home range sizes may also be due to different methods of analysis. The density in Tabin was estimated at 37 - 5 adults / 100 km? which is comparable to the density on Iriomote Island of 34 / 100 km? ®.

Sumber: Felidae