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Malla, G.; Ray, P.; Rajasekar, P.S.; Sivakumar, K.
Notes on the fishing cats of the Godavari delta, Andhra Pradesh, India
2019 Cat News (70): 18-21
Most of the wild cats tend towards temporal and spatial partitioning among each other to avoid encounters or competition for resources. However, little information is available on the fine-scale spatial and temporal interactions among fishing cats _Prionailurus viverrinus_ in the wild. Herewith, we describe the spatial distribution pattern of fishing cat individuals within a population in order to understand their intra-specific interactions based on our 4 years of camera trap observations in mangrove forests of Godavari delta, India. Further, we used kernel density estimation method to look for temporal overlap in diurnal activity patterns of individual fishing cats which indicated a potential temporal partitioning between closely occurring male individuals.
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