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Prionailurus planiceps 121002450🐈

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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Flat-headed cat

Prionailurus planiceps (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)

O gato-de-cabeça-chata (Prionailurus planiceps) é uma espécie de felino que habita a Reserva Florestal de Dermakot, na Malásia. É um felino considerado "ressuscitado", pois sua espécie foi dada como extinta em meados da década de 1980 e foi redescoberta na década de 1990. Também é conhecido como "gato doninha", devido à sua semelhança com esses mustelídeos. Além disso, tem a mesma preferência de habitat, visto que geralmente é encontrado em florestas tropicais, áreas pantanosas, pântanos, lagos, riachos, florestas de turfeiras e matas ciliares.[1] Atualmente a espécie encontra-se em perigo de extinção.

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Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
5.14 kg
Body length
0.48 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
14 years
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Everything we know about the Flat-headed cat

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.14 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 6.75 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.48 m
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Brain mass
23 g
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Maximum lifespan
14 years
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  • 14 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
6 years
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Gestation
56 days
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  • 56 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 2estimated
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Volume l
5.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Flat-headed cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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What it eats
fish60%
reptiles, fish and amphibians40%
In other languages
Flachkopfkatze (de), Prionailurus planiceps (es), Prionailurus planiceps (fr), Kotek kusy (pl), laposfejű macska (hu), Prionailurus planiceps (it) … and 23 more languages
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