{"id":64816,"date":"2026-02-24T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=64816"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:41:56","slug":"fishing-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fishing-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Fishing Cat Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the first scientific assessment of the fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) has established Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve as a stronghold of the small feline species.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Fishing Cat<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a stocky and powerfully built <\/span><b>medium-sized wild cat species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">found in a variety of <\/span><b>wetland habitats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>mangrove forests,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> swamps, marshes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species is <\/span><b>adapted to both fresh and saltwater habitats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and is able to tolerate a wide range of weather conditions, from tropical rain forests to temperate regions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is native to <\/span><b>South and Southeast Asia.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It inhabits the peninsular region of India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Java, and Pakistan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, fishing cats are mainly found in the mangrove <\/span><b>forests of the Sundarbans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on the foothills of the Himalayas along the <\/span><b>Ganga and Brahmaputra river valleys,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in the Western Ghats.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of Fishing Cat\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fishing cats are powerfully built with <\/span><b>short limbs and a stocky body.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have a long head and a short tail that is roughly one-third the length of their body.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their fur is coarse and brownish gray in color with distinctive dark markings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>fishing cat is an adept swimmer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and enters water frequently to prey on fish, as its name suggests. It is known to even dive to catch fish.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They show <\/span><b>strong sexual dimorphism.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Males are considerably larger.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>nocturnal.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Conservation Status of Fishing Cat\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Vulnerable<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Wildlife Protection Act of 1972:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schedule I<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/first-scientific-assessment-establishes-kaziranga-as-a-fishing-cat-stronghold\/article70666217.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishing Cat, a wetland-dwelling wild cat of South and Southeast Asia, thrives in Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve and is listed as Vulnerable by IUCN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":89614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2850,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-64816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-fishing-cat","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89657,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64816\/revisions\/89657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}