Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

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Images and videos of small wild cats killing or attacking various prey.

Camera trap image of a Mainland Clouded Leopard carrying a killed binturong. First record of a clouded leopard predating on a binturong.

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African golden cat attacks and kills(?) a monkey

A treetop diner: camera trapping reveals novel arboreal foraging by fishing cats on colonial nesting birds in Bangladesh LINK

Abstract

Based on camera trap images, we document active foraging attempts on nests of colonial waterbirds by a fishing cat Prionailurus viverrinus. The nests were built in the canopy of an 8-m-tall Indian Oak tree Barringtonia acutangula in the Haor Basin region, northeast Bangladesh. In 2022, two events of fishing cats reaching nests with fledglings were documented. In one event, the cat killed four fledglings. The species primarily follows a piscivorous diet and is evolutionarily adapted for semi-aquatic hunting niches. These records provide the first known evidence of the arboreal hunting behaviour observed in the fishing cat.

[Photo sequence of the arboreal predatory behaviour of the fishing cat captured on camera traps in northeast Bangladesh arranged in a clockwise sequence. (A–F) The first event on 03 August, 2022. (G–L) The second event on 02 October, 2022 (for descriptions see Table 1).]

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Incredible video of a predation attempt by an ocelot on a sloth

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