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| Khan, M.M.H. | |
| Food habit of the leopard cat _Prionailurus bengalensis_ (Kerr 1792) in the Sundarbans East Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh | |
| 2004 Zoos's Print (19): 1475-1476 | |
Food habit of the leopard cat was studied on the basis of 21 scats and 12 kills collected between September 2001 and February 2003. The mean weight of a dry scat was 20.5g. Like in most of its global range, the leopard cat was found to prefer rats and mice (found in 52.4 % of samples). Other food items were insects (28.6%), birds (23.8%), plant material (19%), agamids (4.8% and crabs (4.8%). |
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