這是小豹貓寶寶的超音波圖
前些日子，幫亞瑟（bingo的兒子）的主人照顧懷孕母豹貓，
這是我初次看到超音波裡面的小小豹貓
還看到心跳，怦怦～怦怦～
真的好奇妙唷！

宙斯除了對人熱情以外，對母貓更是熱情，永不停止對母貓的追逐，
比起bingo這種修道士的豹貓，宙斯的交配慾的確很強，
而且奇怪的是，母貓好像都很愛他！

前天播出了，連我自己都忘記看了

這天錄影時我們晚到，已經開錄了才帶貓咪進棚，
所以bingo整個怕到不行，沒給他適應的時間，
他都不站起來握手，很緊張害怕，真是辛苦他了.....

那天有看到稀有的動物唷！

這是長鼻浣熊，聽說身價比北美浣熊高，大約7-8萬/隻，
他很活潑唷，一直找人玩，很可愛唷！



這是白化臭鼬，長的跟上次在麻辣天后宮看到的雪貂很像ㄝ，
只是毛比較長，比較大隻一點，
聽說臭鼬的臭腺，在進口前就會割除，所以不用擔心他們會放臭屁唷！
這個主人帥德很用心在推廣臭鼬唷！
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/holdme898
大家可以去逛逛！

說實在，每次看到bingo走路的樣子，
我還是會依然感到驕傲＆愛慕........

如同獵豹一般，他的後腳比前腳長，
尾巴位在比脊椎更低的位置，
頭部小，尾巴很長，，走路起來安靜無聲，如同一隻小型獵豹，
看過國內許多豹貓，沒見過第二隻跟bingo相同體態的豹貓，




他真的是我的驕傲！

一手抱一隻，灰色身體上佈滿黑色斑紋，這是貓咪嗎？放到磅秤上一量，每隻竟然有15公斤，原來這是大陸稀有的保育類動物「雪豹」。家住新疆的張培偉，今年五月在峽谷放牧時，看到一對全身溼答答凍得發抖的小動物，原本以為它們是草原班貓，當下決定帶回家飼養，卻怎麼也沒想到貓咪越養越大隻，而且不吃乾糧只吃肉，覺得事情不對勁了，張培偉趕緊通報，專家鑑定結果竟是雪豹。

可愛貓咪變成稀有雪豹，張培偉一點也不開心，由於當地動保單位缺乏合適場地，張培偉得暫時養著，而光是雪豹姊弟的食量高的嚇人，一天要吃掉3、4隻活雞，擔心雪豹吃出病來，還得先幫活雞洗澡再餵食，怪只怪自己有眼不識雪豹，現在也只能繼續等，看哪個單位願意收容這兩隻保育類動物。(新聞來源：東森新聞)

轉自：http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081115/17/19h54.html

昨天看見這則新聞『「怪獸」攻擊家犬！非貓非石虎　專家不知品種』
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081110/17/1971n.html

引起我高度興趣，這貓我看過圖片！
這絕對不是台灣種原生貓，網路上的這張照片相當模糊，
根據模糊的照片，只能勉強判斷....

我猜可能是 Asian Golden Cat  （亞洲金貓）相似度九成以上






不過還有一種更稀有的大貓，下面這隻 Bornean Bay Cat，也有點類似唷！




純屬猜測，畢竟照片真的很模糊，真想親眼見到牠！

Asian Golden Cat 照片如下：












 Bornean Bay Cat 照片如下：

想到這裡，我覺得憂心忡忡.......

1.台灣貓科原生種只有雲豹與石虎兩種，
  雲豹早已絕跡，數十年來無發現的紀錄，
  石虎，也越來越稀少，野外數量與生活條件令人堪慮，
  要是有人走私外來貓種，又讓他逃脫或是棄養，
  造成生態的改變，不管對貓科動物或對人類，都不一件好事。
  台灣的自然環境被破壞殆盡，
  原生物種大多瀕臨危險的生存邊緣，
  還有人讓這種外來野生貓貿然的出現在台灣生態中，
  當初小小的福壽螺從國外引進時，
  造成台灣生態大浩劫的問題，不容小看！

2.萬一，他只是被抓到的唯一個案，
  如果還有其他野生貓在外流浪，真的令人憂慮.....

3.這隻大貓看起來狀況不是很好，有些瘦弱。實在感到不捨...

4.這或許是走私來的，既然花錢弄進來，應該是想營利，
  所以應該是逃脫逃走的吧？
  然後因為飢餓才到民宅偷食物吧
  如果是為營利，也許他有配偶還在走私者手中，
  或是一同逃脫了也說不定

5.外來種，要是走私來的沒有檢疫過，
  大部分野生貓科動物的國家都是狂犬病疫區，
  萬一帶有狂犬病或是不知名傳染原，造成台灣野生動物的浩劫，
  這該怎麼辦啊？實在很憂慮！

Bornean Bay Cat
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrata)
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Felinae (Catopuma)
Species: badia

Misc.: No actual studies of this cat have ever been made in the wild, and it continues to be the mystery cat of the feline family. Virtually all information has been taken from museum specimens, except for in 1992 when a female was captured in a trap accidentally. It is believed she was kept in captivity for some months after capture, and was brought in to the local museum on the brink of death, and her remains were used for genetic analysis.

Size and Appearance: About the size of a housecat, the Bay Cat weighs between 5-10 pounds. It has 2 coat colors, the more common being a chestnut-red, and the other being a gray. The coat is speckled with black markings, and the backs of the rounded ears are darker in color. The tail is long and has a whitish stripe running down most of the underside of the tail, which becomes pure white at the tip, but black on the topside. It has a long body, and that combined with the long tail give it the appearance of the Jaguarundi.

Habitat: The Highlands, areas of rocky limestone on the edge of dense jungle. Some reports also indicate it may be found in dense primary forest and along rivers.

Distribution: Borneo only.

Reproduction and Offspring: Unknown.

Longevity unknown.

Social System and Communication: Unknown.

Hunting and Diet: Unknown.

Principal Threats: The only believed threat at this time would be loss of habitat due to human settlement and logging. Unfortunately, since virtually nothing is known about this little cat, it is difficult to determine what threatens its existence and survival.

Status: CITES: Appendix II. IUCN: Insufficiently known.

Felid TAG 2000 recommendation: Bornean bay cat (Catopuma badia). Until recently, this species was an enigma because knowledge about its origin and biology was only derived from several museum specimens. Although recently photographed in the wild, it would be highly unlikely that a viable captive population of this naturally rare felid could ever be obtained for North America.

How rare is this cat ?   The International Species Information Service lists 44 worldwide, with 5 being in the U.S.  There are 0 living on Easy Street. 

Information reprinted With Permission from the IUCN Wild Cats Book

http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/bay_cat.htm

Asian Golden Cat

                                                                        Photo by:  Mohamed Ismail

Misc.: This cat was originally classified as 2 distinct species due to color variations. The red phase was called the "Golden" cat, while the gray phase was called the "Silver" cat. Today, they are recognized as a single species with 2 color variations. It is referred to in some areas as "the Leopard's brother" because they inhabit the same area.

Sub-species: F.t. tristis ?Sichuan and Tibet

Size and Appearance: This medium sized cat weighs between 20-32.5 pounds, stands approximately 26-33 inches tall and reaches lengths of 46-54 inches. Like their African counterpart, their coat color appears in several variations, from fox-red to golden brown, but can also be black, brown or gray. Their pattern can also vary greatly from plain to spotted, and includes, in one region, rosette and spot markings that resemble that of an Ocelot. It is this Ocelot-like from that has been given its own distinct subspecies listed above. The face of the golden cat is marked with white lines running across its cheeks, and from the corners of its eyes up to the top of its head. Its ears are dark with a grizzled center. The underside of the last third of the tail, including the tip, is white.

Habitat: Predominately found in tropical and sub-tropical moist evergreen and dry deciduous forests. Occasionally found in shrub and grassland.

Distribution: The Himalayas, China, southeastern Asia, Malaysia, Nepal and Sumatra.

Reproduction and Offspring: After a gestation of approximately 80 days, a litter of 1-3 kittens is born, with 1 being the average. Newborns weigh approximately 8.75 ounces at birth. Eyes open around 9 days and they are weaned at around 6 months. They reach sexual maturity around 18-24 months for females, and around 2 years for males.

In captivity, Asian Golden Cats have lived up to 20 years, although the average is 12.

Social System and Communication: Unknown.

Hunting and Diet: The primary prey of this cat is large rodents, amphibians and insects, birds, small reptiles and small ungulates. They have also been found to prey on larger animals like wild pig, sambar deer, and young calves of domestic water buffalo.

Principal Threats: Deforestation and hunting for its pelt and bones. Livestock depredation has also been an issue.

Status: CITES: Appendix I. IUCN: Indeterminate.

Information reprinted With Permission from the IUCN Wild Cats Book

http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/bay_cat.htm


Asian Golden Cat

Asian golden cats have long been known in Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand as ‘fire cats’. Legend says that carrying one hair will give the bearer protection from tigers, or burning the pelt will drive tigers away from the village.

Sturdily built with fairly long legs, the Asian golden cat is a medium size cat, with fox-red to gold-brown, black, brown or grey fur. Melanistic examples are not uncommon. There is a variation, thus far reported only from China, of ocelot-like rosettes and spots, which looks so unlike the plain form that some taxonomists have considered it a separate species. The moderate length, dense coat is generally unmarked, but those cats in the more northerly regions often exhibit spots and stripes that closely resemble the markings of the leopard cat Prionailurus benagalensis. The most conspicuous features of this cat are the white lines bordered with black running across the cheeks, and from the inner corners of the eyes up to the crown. As with most cats, the underside and inner legs are white, and there is a white patch on the underside of the last part of the long tail, which is roughly 1/2 to 1/3 of the total body length. The backs of the short, rounded ears are black, with a whitish central area, and the eyes are usually greyish green or amber.

The Asian species appears to be closely related to the African golden cat Profelis aurata although the two are separated by more than 6,400 kilometers. It is thought that about one million years ago forests covered the area from Senegal to China, a region now broken by vast deserts. Over the years, the deserts probably isolated the two golden cat populations.

The Asian golden cat is a nocturnal forest dweller, preferring deciduous and tropical rainforest, and occasionally more open areas with rocky tracts. In parts of China they are known as the ‘rock cat’. They are found from Nepal and northeast India through southeast Asia, China, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra. Unlike the African cat however, the Asian species is considered to be more abundant throughout their range.

Although they can climb well, they spend most of their time on the ground, carrying their long tail curled up at the tip. They are reported by tribesmen in Thailand to have their young in the hollow of a tree. Opportunistic hunters, they prey on a wide variety of rodents, birds, reptiles, young hares, muntjacs and water buffalo calves. They have also been known to prey on poultry, sheep and goats, and it is for this reason that the cats are actively hunted by the villagers.

After a gestation of 75 - 80 days, one to three kittens are born, weighing approximately 250 grams. Their eyes open at around nine days, and they are weaned at six months. Kittens have longer, thicker coats than the adults, but show no pattern. They are slightly darker than the adults. This attractive Asian carnivore has in the past been fairly common in European zoos, although their reproductive rate was not particularly good. Worldwide, there are less than a dozen in zoos, with only four or five females in breeding situations. There is a high incidence of females being killed by their mates, even in well established pairs. Maximum longevity has been reported at 20 years.

The Asiatic golden cat is widely reported as uncommon and threatened by deforestation. Major threats also include hunting for their pelt and bones. Their meat is considered a delicacy and the whole animal is often roasted on a spit. The bones are then sometimes ground into a powder to be given to children for fevers. Livestock predation, which usually leads to persecution, has also been reported. Although they are reported to be decreasing in India and Indonesia, no factual information is known of their status in the wild. Hunting is allowed in Laos, Bhutan and Brunei. CITES has placed them on Appendix I.

http://www.wildcatconservation.org/Asian_Golden_Cat_(Catopuma_temminckii).html

前幾天，豹貓一哥bingo又被邀去電視台錄影，
當然，霹靂小王子也必然跟著去啦！

由於霹靂的好個性與愛抱抱的模樣！
大家都爭相抱他！

感謝馬如龍主席＆文英阿姨，超親切的與我們寒暄，
文英阿姨雖然怕貓，仍然滿臉笑容，如此親切和藹，文英阿姨超可愛ㄋ！
主席....更是親切有加.....一直抱著霹靂，並且要求要寄照片給他！
真的好榮幸唷！

Jason好喜歡霹靂唷！節目結束後，他抱著霹靂玩好久，
他有養一隻超可愛的黃金獵犬，對任何人都好熱情！
Jason也喜歡貓唷，他說他養過折耳貓！
他抱著霹靂說，真不想放手ㄋ！











Jason要求工作人員幫他與霹靂合照，不斷做表情照了好多照片，
我也在旁邊跟著猛拍，Jason真的好喜歡霹靂！

霹靂，你真的太可愛了！
每個人都愛抱你！我也是....哈哈！

關於其他錄影的細節與節目，有機會再跟大家介紹，
那天還看到多新奇的動物唷！

前幾天，豹貓一哥bingo又被邀去電視台錄影，
當然，霹靂小王子也必然跟著去啦！

由於霹靂的好個性與愛抱抱的模樣！
大家都爭相抱他！

感謝馬如龍主席＆文英阿姨，超親切的與我們寒暄，
文英阿姨雖然怕貓，仍然滿臉笑容，如此親切和藹，文英阿姨超可愛ㄋ！
主席....更是親切有加.....一直抱著霹靂，並且要求要寄照片給他！
真的好榮幸唷！

Jason好喜歡霹靂唷！節目結束後，他抱著霹靂玩好久，
他有養一隻超可愛的黃金獵犬，對任何人都好熱情！
Jason也喜歡貓唷，他說他養過折耳貓！
他抱著霹靂說，真不想放手ㄋ！











Jason要求工作人員幫他與霹靂合照，不斷做表情照了好多照片，
我也在旁邊跟著猛拍，Jason真的好喜歡霹靂！

霹靂，你真的太可愛了！
每個人都愛抱你！我也是....哈哈！

關於其他錄影的細節與節目，有機會再跟大家介紹，
那天還看到多新奇的動物唷！

這隻小豹貓，是難得一見的珍藏品～
他是不是特別具有野性美呢？

他的眼睛有著白色眼眶，鼻梁有兩條白線，
腹部有明顯的灰白色，是不是像極了真正的小獵豹？
他的金黃體色，配著黑而均勻的斑點。
說實在，他與真的獵豹顏色相差不遠了！
他的頭形小而結實，毛質特別綿密柔軟，
耳朵小而圓，眼睛大而圓，眼神炯炯有神！

看遍了國內許多豹貓的照片，幾乎沒有一隻有這麼漂亮的野性美！

他是小公貓，個性相當相當調皮。
他十分愛玩，幾乎沒有一刻可以靜下來！
他也很愛摸摸，只要摸他脖子，就會很用力的呼嚕！

他有野性的外表，而且有天真的個性，
實在是孟加拉貓界的夢幻逸品～

現在，他越來越貪吃了.......