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Dhendup, T.; Tempa, T.; Tenzin, U.
Clouded leopard co-exists with six other felids in Royal Manas National Park, Bhutan
2016 Cat News (63): 24-27
Seven species of wild cats were camera trapped in Royal Manas National Park making it one of the parks with the highest diversity of wildcats in the world and hence rightly the title, 'hotspot of felid diversity'. The camera trapped species were tiger _Panthera tigris_, leopard _Panthera pardus_, clouded leopard _Neofelis nebulosa_, Asiatic golden cat Captopuma temminckii, marbled cat_ Pardofelis marmorata_, leopard cat _Priornailurus bengalensis_ and jungle cat _Felis chaus_. Fishing cat _Prionailurus viverrinus _still remains to be confirmed. We report at least 11 individual clouded leopards in the study site and we suggest that their habitats could be threatened by human disturbances but data is insufficient to determine whether the threat is significant.
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