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Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)

United Kingdom Sully Offline
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(05-27-2020, 11:44 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote: @Sully I noticed that your thread has been renamed to mean the Continental species (Neofelis nebulosa), even though this thread is about both Sunda (Neofelis diardi) and Mainland clouded leopards, and that it's in the subsection "Leopard", as opposed to "Wild Cats".


Yes I noticed that too. I haven't done it so I think a moderator needs to fix it.
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The closest relative of smilodon alive today is the clouded leopard.
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A very rare capture of a clouded leopard from Tripura, India.

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"The spectacular Sunda Clouded Leopard is the largest wild cat species in Borneo. I captured this male walking along a remote ridge deep in the rainforest using a camera trap.  It is one of the endangered species protected in Gunung Palung National Park, and an example of what we have to loose if we don’t do more to safeguard our planets biodiversity."


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Tim Laman - Wildlife Photojournalist
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Male from Virachey National Park, Cambodia


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Pin Chanratana
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huge male seems to be more than 30kg
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Huge Sunda male
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/899794801157877800/909119153934311495/IMG_2719.webp
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Sunda clouded leopard sighted on road in East Malaysia (Malaysian Borneo)

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Clouded Leopard Predation on a Wild Juvenile Siamang


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I report the first documented case of a wild siamang killed by a clouded leopard. The event, involving a juvenile male (weighing 3.7 kg), occurred at dawn, near a known sleeping tree in a lowland tropical forest in southern Sumatra (Indonesia). Examination of the siamang’s body revealed that the first 2 cervical vertebrae were crushed and the face was partially eaten. This attack highlights the potential importance of predation as an evolutionary pressure for hylobatids, and poses some questions about the antipredator adaptations of this population of siamang.
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Clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) predation on proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in Sabah, Malaysia


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In this study, we have reported two direct observations of individuals from a one-male group of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) being killed by clouded leopards (Neofelis diardi) in the riverine forest along the Menanggul river, a tributary of the Kinabatangan river in Sabah, Malaysia. One of the two individuals was an infant female and the other was a juvenile female. Based on literature reviews and the observations reported here, we suggest that clouded leopard and crocodile might be significant potential predators of proboscis monkeys of any age or sex and that predation threats elicit the monkeys’ anti-predator strategies. Moreover, the observations of the monkeys’ behaviour when the group is attacked by a predator suggest that the adult males in one-male groups play an important role as protectors.
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( This post was last modified: 05-11-2022, 03:48 AM by Acinonyx sp. )

First estimates of population ecology and threats to Sunda clouded leopards Neofelis diardi in a peat-swamp forest, Indonesia

ABSTRACT: The Sunda clouded leopard Neofelis diardi is Borneo’s largest predator. A study of the species’ population ecology in 50 km2 (effective sample area 145 km2 ) of the Sabangau forest, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, spanned May 2008 to January 2012. A total of 54 camera traps at 27 stations yielded 35 129 functional trap nights resulting in 90 photos of 6 clouded leopards: 5 males and 1 female. Using capture-recapture analysis in 3 mo blocks, we extrapolated to an estimated density range of 0.72 to 4.41 ind. per 100 km2 across all models and all data sets. Direct hunting pressure on the cats and indirect threats through possible depletion of the prey base by humans were assessed though interview and questionnaire surveys of 68 villagers in 9 villages around the edge of the 5600 km2 Sabangau Forest. Of the respondents, 40% hunted deer and bearded pigs, although no respondent listed hunting as their main source of income or food. The low detection rates of clouded leopards suggests that a minimum area of 100 km2 per site, and multiple sites, should be studied to elucidate the impact of habitat disturbance and fragmentation on clouded leopard populations.

CONCLUSIONS 
This is the first population study for this threatened felid in any peat-swamp forest, although we have been at pains to emphasise the methodological caveats. We conclude that even with preliminary density range estimates of only 0.72 to 4.41 ind. per 100 km2 , peat forest (of which there are an estimated 68 000 km2 in Indonesian Borneo; Page et al. 1997, 1999, Cheyne & Macdonald 2011), may be more important to clouded leopard conservation than previously supposed. If our evidence is typical, then by extrapolation, the totality of peat forest in Indonesian Borneo might harbour a significant population of clouded leopards. Local surveys suggest that hunting pressure is relatively low, and thus habitat loss and fragmentation are likely to be the greatest threats.
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Clouded leopard camera trapped chasing a malayan porcupine in penninsular malaysia

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