Clouded leopard
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CLOUDED LEOPARD (Felis nebulosa or macroscelis), a large arboreal cat from the forests of south-east Asia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Formosa.
Clouded leopards are very good climbers.
To which animal group does the clouded leopard belong?
The clouded leopard is classified as a big cat because it behaves and looks like other big cats, but it is more closely related to the lynx.
Clouded Leopard
Neofelis nebulosa
Named for the large cloud-like spots on its body, the clouded leopard is a medium-sized cat that sports a grayish or yellowish coat.
Clouded Leopard
Range
Southeastern part of the Asian continent from Nepal, Bangladesh and Assam (eastern India) through Indochina to Sumatra and Borneo and northeastward to southern China and formerly Taiwan.
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Raising Clouded Leopards
Staff at the Zoo's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia, are hand-rearing three clouded leopard cubs. Two males were born there on March 24, and a female was born on July 9, 2009.
Clouded leopards are named for the cloud-like spots on their coats that enable them to blend into their jungle environment. Also, despite being called a leopard, they are not related to the true leopard (Panthera pardus).
CLOUDED LEOPARD
Neofelis nebulosa
STATUS:
Endangered.
DESCRIPTION:
Clouded leopards have long, strong tails and powerful, stout legs.
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Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Carnivore Size: Body, 2 to 3 ft (.6 to .9 m); Tail, ...
The clouded leopard is endangered due to the conversion of their forest habitat and poaching for its striking pelt.
Mammals ...
Clouded Leopards
The clouded leopard is more at home in the trees than on the ground and can move nimbly through the dense forests of southeast Asia and the eastern Himalayas.
Clouded leopards are very similar to the extinct sabre-toothed cats. In proportion to their body size, they have the longest canines of any cat. They are top forest predators capable of performing some amazing feats amongst the trees.
Clouded Leopard:
The clouded leopard is a very mysterious animal that few people have seen. Our information on them is limited to studies on captive ones, as they have rarely been able to be studied in the wild.
Clouded Leopard
Class: Mammalia
Status: IUCN: Vulnerable; CITES: Appendix l
Clown loach ...
Clouded Leopards (Neofilis nebulosa) sp.: several subspecies
Population & Trends: Numbers unknown, but the numbers of this small Asian rainforest leopard species are known to be declining due to illegal hunting and habitat loss.
Lions ...
Clouded Leopard (N. nebulosa) Â- Bornean Clouded Leopard (N. diardi)
Panthera
Lion (P. leo) Â- Jaguar (P. onca) Â- Leopard (P. pardus) Â- Tiger (P. tigris) ...
More distantly related is the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa, of the forests of SE Asia. Its gray or yellowish coat is strikingly marked with black and brown; it has stripes on the face and tail, spots on the limbs, and rosettes on the body.
But it does illustrate a catch-22 of zoo conservation: in order to attract visitors an animal has to be well known and easily recognised (like lions); but to become well known the animal is likely to be common (unlike clouded leopards); ...
Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus)
Western hoolock gibbon (Hoolock hoolock)
Capped langur (Trachypithecus pileatus)
Lius papillae-tongued frog (Ingerana liui) ...
swinhoei remain on Taiwan, although the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) may have been a prime predator in forests prior to its extirpation (Lue, 1987).
In addition to elephants, these almost 64,250 acres of fragmented forests are home to a rich diversity of wildlife including orangutans, proboscis monkeys, Sumatran rhinos, clouded leopards, more than 300 species of birds and countless reptiles, ...
It is one of three cats (ocelot, margay, and clouded leopard) that can rotate its ankles 180 degrees so that it can climb down a tree head first.
Lions, along with jaguars, leopards, tigers, snow leopards and clouded leopards, split off from all other cat lineages early in the evolution of the cat family and today form what is known as the Panthera lineage.
Asian elephants, tigers, clouded leopards, Malayan sun bears, Indian wild dogs and a substantial number of the estimated 200 Sumatran rhinos live within this park.
Along the logging road, we found footprints of many types of wildlife including the Leopard cat (Felis bengalensis), Tapir (Tapirus indicus), Barking deer (Muntiacus muntjak), Clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), ...
 See also: Leopard, Tiger, Lion, Cheetah, Otter
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