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Asiatic golden cat

Asiatic golden cat, my favorite species.

Asiatic golden cat
baboon, 25 Nov 2014
    • baboon
      Asiatic golden cat, my favorite species.
      25 Nov 2014
    • TeaLovingDave
      Got to be one of my favorite species too :D this animal is one of the most richly coloured I have ever seen - it is almost certainly an Indochinese Golden Cat (Pardofelis temminckii temminckii) as it is not robust enough for Chinese, and the pattern and colour is wrong for Tibetan.

      This photo, by the by, is certainly the best of those you have uploaded :)
      25 Nov 2014
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    • baboon
      I know you will certainly like this species :D
      One of the reason I like golden cat is while tiger, leopard and other felids become so fat in zoos, the golden cat will always keep good shape. I mean, all the golden cats I have seen in zoos, including the ones in Beijing (RIP), Chengdu and Guangzhou Zoo, all keep good shape and full of muscle.
      As Guangzhou locates in southmost of China mainland, its fauna is indeed similar with Indo-China.
      25 Nov 2014
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    • TeaLovingDave
      The other giveaway factor is the fact that for whatever reason, even in China nowhere is known to keep dominicanorum - preferring to keep the nominate subspecies or (very rarely) tristis. But it is always worth knowing how to tell the subspecies apart just in case a collection *does* turn out to hold dominicanorum!

      In point of fact there is only a single dominicanorum known in captivity, a very elderly animal here in the UK at Thrigby Hall.
      25 Nov 2014
    • baboon
      In fact I doubt the subspecies classification of golden cat...... Because it is hard to believe the golden cats in Sumatra, malay and Indo-China are the same subspecies! I believe the golden cats in southwest mountains of China is a distinct subspecies though, as many species show the same pattern.
      25 Nov 2014
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