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| Jutzeler, E.; Xie, Y.; Vogt, K. | |
| Jungle cat | |
| 2010 Cat News (Special Issue 5): 44-45 | |
China represents the edge of the distribution range, where the jungle cat is uncommon or even rare (Nowell & Jackson 1996). In China, the species is thought to occur in Yunnan in the Nangunhe National Nature Reserve and the Xishuangbanna region (L. Feng, pers. comm., Wang 1998), in the Giant Panda Reserves in the south of Sichuan (Seidensticker & Eisenberg 1984), on the Ordos Plateau in Inner Mongolia, in Shaanxi (Frisina et al. 2001) and in the Namcha Barwa region of southeastern Tibet (Qiu & Bleisch 1996). Jungle cats were also reported from the South China Protected Area System of Hainan. However, most of the data from China are outdated and the presence of the species is not confirmed by hard facts. There are no recent studies on status, density or population numbers of the jungle cat. Indeed, it may no longer be common or even occurring in the provinces suggested above. |
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