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Prionailurus viverrinus 01🐈

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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Fishing cat

Prionailurus viverrinus (Bennett, 1833)

Кошка-рыболов, или крапчатая кошка, или рыбья кошка (лат. Prionailurus viverrinus) — дикая кошка юго-восточной Азии, отличающаяся тем, что ловит рыбу и хорошо плавает. Вид близко родственен амурской лесной кошке и похож на неё, но более крупных размеров. Редкое животное, внесено в Приложение II CITES.

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Videos
2
Photos
2
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/6th of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
11 kg
Body length
0.82 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Fishing cat

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

Body mass
11 kg
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Other figures ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 11 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.82 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
48 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
6 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
71 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 72 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 2
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
11 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Fishing cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

More

More about the Fishing cat

Closest relative on this site
🐈 Leopard cat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.0 million years ago.
What it eats
fish40%
insects and other invertebrates20%
warm-blooded animals20%
reptiles, fish and amphibians20%
In other languages
Fischkatze (de), Prionailurus viverrinus (es), Chat viverrin (fr), Kotek cętkowany (pl), halászmacska (hu), Prionailurus viverrinus (it) … and 28 more languages

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