It's early, but here's today's Red Data Animal~nya! Well, it looks like today's Red Data Animal is the Iriomote Wildcat! I bet all you TMM lovers know what that means! The Iriomote Wildcat is about the size of a normal house cat that lives exclusively on Iriomote Island in Japan. It is considered a "living fossil" by many biologists because it has not changed much from its primitive form. Like the Amur Leopard, the Iriomote Wildcat is one of the most critically endangered species of cat, and has an estimated population of low under 100 in the wild. Females average body size is 48 cm (19 in) excluding the tail and males are slightly larger at 53–56 cm (21–22 in) excluding the tail. Both sexes are otherwise the same, with overall head and body length range of 38–65 cm (15–26 in). Height at shoulders is 25 cm (10 in), tail length averages 16–45 cm (6.3–18 in) and weight averages 3–7 kg (6.6–15.5 lb).The Iriomote cat is known to take fruit bats, black rats, wild boar, night herons, quails, rails, pigeons, doves, frogs, scops-owls, kingfishers, robins, thrushes, crows, box turtles, and skinks.
Awww, cuuttee!
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