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| Sadik, A.S.; Akash, M. | |
| A treetop diner: camera trapping reveals novel arboreal foraging by fishing cats on colonial nesting birds in Bangladesh | |
| 2024 Mammalia (88): 100-105 | |
Based on camera trap images, we document active foraging attempts on nests of colonial waterbirds by a fishing cat _Prionailurus viverrinus_. The nests were built in the canopy of an 8-m-tall Indian Oak tree _Barringtonia acutangula_ in the Haor Basin region, northeast Bangladesh. In 2022, two events of fishing cats reaching nests with fledglings were documented. In one event, the cat killed four fledglings. The species primarily follows a piscivorous diet and is evolutionarily adapted for semi-aquatic hunting niches. These records provide the first known evidence of the arboreal hunting behaviour observed in the fishing cat. |
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