{"id":95518,"date":"2026-03-30T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=95518"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:16:49","slug":"jungle-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jungle-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jungle cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Jungle cat Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent studies revealed that Jungle cat\u2019s populations are shrinking and suggested they need habitats outside protected areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Jungle cat<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jungle cat (Felis chaus) is a <\/span><b>medium-sized cat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its name comes from <\/span><b>the Caucasus Mountains,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the place this cat was first discovered.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Other names:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Swamp Cat, Reed Cat<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Appearance<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is long-legged and is the largest of the extant Felis species. Females tend to be smaller and lighter than males.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a white muzzle, yellow irises, large ears ending in black tufts, and the sometimes faint striping on its long legs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These are found across diverse habitats, from <\/span><b>grasslands and wetlands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to deserts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They\u2019re present across <\/span><b>Asia, with large populations in India and Nepal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also <\/span><b>found in Egypt,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and throughout southwest Asia, southeast Asia, and Central Asia, extending its range as far as the south of China.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>avoids dense forests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and heavily-modified landscapes, preferring agro-pastoral and open habitats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>not nocturnal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and does much of its hunting in the early mornings and late afternoons.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a carnivorous creature and mostly prey on rodents, lizards, frogs, snakes and livestock.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/iucn-red-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">IUCN Red List<\/a>:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Least concern\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wildlife-protection-act\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972<\/a>:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schedule II<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/secretive-jungle-cats-need-habitats-outside-protected-areas-study\/article70798917.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jungle cat distribution, populations shrinking due to habitat loss beyond protected areas; found across Asia, adaptable to wetlands, grasslands and open habitats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":95537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6449,21,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-95518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-jungle-cat","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-afffairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95518","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95518"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95571,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95518\/revisions\/95571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}