16 Facts About Jungle cat

Jungle cat, called reed cat, swamp cat and jungle lynx, is a medium-sized cat native to the Middle East, the Caucasus, South and Southeast Asia and southern China.

Jungle cat has a uniformly sandy, reddish-brown or grey fur without spots; melanistic and albino individuals are known.

Jungle cat described this specimen in 1776 under the name "Chaus".

In 1836, Brian Houghton Hodgson proclaimed the red-eared cat commonly found in Nepal to be a lynx and therefore named it Lynchus erythrotus; Edward Frederick Kelaart described the first jungle cat skin from Sri Lanka in 1852 and stressed upon its close resemblance to Hodgson's red cat.

Jungle cat renamed the Egyptian jungle cat as F c nilotica because Felis ruppelii was already applied to a different cat.

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Jungle cat newly described six larger skins from Sind as F c prateri, and skins with shorter coats from Sri Lanka and southern India as F c kelaarti.

Geographical variation of the jungle cat is not yet well understood and needs to be examined.

Jungle cat is a member of the genus Felis within the family Felidae.

Jungle cat is a medium-sized, long-legged cat, and the largest of the extant Felis species.

Jungle cat is found in the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Indian subcontinent, central and Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and in southern China.

The meow of the jungle cat is somewhat lower than that of a typical domestic cat.

Primarily a carnivore, the jungle cat prefers small mammals such as gerbils, hares and rodents.

The jungle cat is unusual in that it is partially omnivorous: it eats fruits, especially in winter.

The Jungle cat has been observed searching for musk rats in their holes.

Major threats to the jungle cat include habitat loss such as the destruction of wetlands, dam construction, environmental pollution, industrialisation and urbanisation.

Since the 1960s, populations of the Caucasian jungle cat living along the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus range states have been rapidly declining.