Small Cat Conservation Alliance
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Why is the Flat-headed cat important?
The Flat-headed cat will likely be IUCN Red List ENDANGERED in 2008.
The Flat-headed cat is the most aquatic of the cats, more aquatic than the Fishing cat!
The cat occurs in Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. The cat is a lowland water
specialist feeding mainly on frogs and fish. Despite tens of thousands of camera trap
photographs taken throughout Sumatra only two individual Flat-headed cats have
ever been photographed. No wonder it is Endangered.
Jim photographed this Flat-headed cat in a captive facility in Thailand..