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| Dahar, S. | |
| Study of Fishing Cat in Nepal: Past, Presence and Future | |
| 2012 Conference Proceeding | |
_Prionailurus viverrinus_, is a small cat widely known as fishing cat. It is mostly associated with wetlands and marshy areas. Fishing cat was described for the first time in the literature by Bennet (1833). Hodgson (1836) gave the first description of fishing cat in Nepal. He gave a short note on its morphological characters and mentioned that it had affinity to Viverrae like face. Pocock (1939) provided skull measurement of the species collected from Sehwan, Sind, Nepal and Kanthalai Ceylon. There remains a long gap in the study of Fishing cat afterwards. Charles McDougal and James L.D. Smith (1984) wrote that the fishing cat is the second most common small cat in Chitwan National Park with indeterminate status in the Terai. IUCN Red Data List gives the account of only radio-telemetry study on fishing cat done on early 1990s at the Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Recent studies on Fishing cat after 2010 has provided the distribution of fishing cat with geographical coordinates in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Suklaphanta Wildlife reserve, Bardia National Park, Chitwan National Park. However, their distribution in Parsa wildlife Reserve and outside the protected area of Tarai Arc Landscape is unknown. Fishing cat are known to suffer from habitat destruction and human conflict in Bangladesh, India and Thailand. Such study has not yet been carried out in Nepal. A detail study of distribution range, population, habitat analysis and conservation threat along Terai Arc Landscape in Nepal is urgent |
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