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pet feline) is one of them. This medium-sized wildcat is native to the wetlands and mangrove forests of South and Southeast Asia—India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand and so on—where it has developed an extraordinary ability to thrive in water-rich environments.
They also make a distinct vocalization that sounds almost like a duck quacking. All of these remarkable adaptations make the fishing cat a master of its aquatic dwellings. Their elusiveness, while making precise population assessments difficult, typically allows them to survive in low-visibility environments. Yet, even accounting for their secretive nature, such a prolonged absence indicates a grim reality: The species may already be locally extinct in regions of Indonesia., once a home for fishing cats, can no longer support their kind owing to lack of sufficient mangrove forested regions.
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