Efforts to save the stubborn 'unique' cat breeding fish in India

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They met on a cold winter morning in 2012 in the Indian coastal city of Visakhapatnam. There was a light breeze blowing, and the statue was looking at the metal trap on the steep trail leading to the dense bushes and tall neem trees. There was a cat inside the trap, but it was no ordinary cat. It was bigger than a domestic cat, but not as big as a lion or a leopard. Its face was as if it were a square or four-cornered, its ears were relatively small in terms of the size of its head, its short tail and its inquisitive membranous feet were like those of a water animal.

Kantimahanti had just arrived at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park in the heart of the Sitakunda Reserve Forest, where he worked as a biologist. They were accustomed to seeing local wildlife such as sambar deer, Asiatic wild dog, Indian cheetah and gore (also called Indian bison) in the natural environment of the park. There was a wall of bushes and a moat around the park. But this cat was something else.



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