Clouded Leopard- A Medium-sized Cat

Clouded Leopard

The clouded leopard is named after the unique 'clouds' on its coat - ellipses moderately surrounded in black, with the inside a darker colour than the background colour of the pelt. The base of the fur is a pale yellow to rich brown, creating the darker cloud-like markings look even more unique.

The limbs and underbelly are noticeable with large black ovals, and the back of its neck is noticeably marked with two thick black bars.The clouded leopard is a medium-sized cat, 60 to 110 cm long and weighing among 11 and 20kg.

It does, even so, have an extremely long tail for balancing, which can be as long as the body itself, thick with black ring markings. The clouded leopard has a stocky build and, proportionately, the longest canine teeth of any living feline.Well tailored to forest life, the clouded leopard also has comparatively short legs and broad paws which make it outstanding at climbing trees and sneaking through thick forest. It can climb while clinging upside-down under branches and descend tree trunks head-first.

Clouded Leopard lives in which area?

 The clouded leopard is identified all over Southeast Asia and the Himalayas in the subsequent countries: southern China, Bhutan, Nepal, northeast India, Burma,

Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, and Bangladesh. It is considered to be vanished in Taiwan.

Clouded Leopard Ecology and Habitat

All over its range, the clouded leopard usually spends the majority of the time in the warm evergreen rainforests but can also be found in dry warm forests and mangrove swamps. It has been found at comparatively high altitudes in the Himalayas.

Threats of Clouded Leopard

The clouded leopard is commonly hunted for its teeth and decorative pelt, and for bones for the traditional Asian medicinal trade

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Clouded leopard pelts have been revealed on sale in markets in China, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal and Thailand. They have also been presented on the menu of restaurants in Thailand and China which cater to rich Asian tourists.