Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)

[GuateGojira]

(01-26-2019, 09:39 PM)Sanju Wrote: Is the biggest prey that Cloudy (23 kg) can kill is just Hog deer species (upto 50 kg) and Orangutan (100 kg in wild whereas heaviest known male orangutan in captivity was an obese male named "Andy", who weighed 204 kg (450 lb) in 1959 when he was 13 years old) or anything else more and bigger?

@GuateGojira

To be honest, I don't have investigated the feeding habits of the Clouded Leopard. Sunquist & Sunquist (2002) do not present a table regarding the feeding habits, but did mention that orangutans are included in the diet of this cat. However it will be interesting to investigate if the specimens killed were adults, of what sex and if are only young specimens. 

Clouded leopard are at the brink of the 20 kg fronteir that says that predators over that weight start hunting animals of its own size or above, so taking in count this and the fact that this cat is well armed, we can suggest that clouded leopards can and probably do kill prey larger than themselves.

Definitelly this is a good point to investigate and this topic is perfect for that. Reply