10 Facts About Clouded leopard

Clouded leopard, called the mainland clouded leopard, is a wild cat inhabiting dense forests from the foothills of the Himalayas through mainland Southeast Asia into South China.

Today, the clouded leopard is locally extinct in Singapore, Taiwan, and possibly Hainan Island and Vietnam.

Clouded leopard has been kept in zoological gardens since the early 20th century.

Felis nebulosa was proposed by Edward Griffith in 1821 who first described a skin of a clouded leopard that was brought alive from Canton Province in China to the menagerie at Exeter Exchange in London.

The clouded leopard is estimated to have been the first cat that genetically diverged from the common ancestor of the Felidae, based on analysis of their nuclear DNA.

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Clouded leopard's fur is of a dark grey or ochreous ground-color, often largely obliterated by black and dark dusky-grey blotched pattern.

The clouded leopard is often referred to as a "modern-day sabre-tooth" because it has the largest canines in proportion to its body size.

Clouded leopard occurs from the Himalayan foothills in Nepal, Bhutan and India to Myanmar, southeastern Bangladesh, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, to south of the Yangtze River in China.

In northern Peninsular Malaysia, a male clouded leopard was photographed while carrying a binturong in its jaws.

Clouded leopard is listed in CITES Appendix I and protected over most of its range.