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Fishing Cat |
Although naturalists believe that large part of its food consists of fish which it gets out of the streams, it certainly does not live on fish alone, for it is often seen in captivity, and, while an occasional fish may be given it as a sort of desert, it eats meat most of the time.
The fishing cat is rather short legged, grayish brown, with a brown or black spots. It has markings that are somewhat like those of certain varieties of domestic cats, but it is a good deal larger than our house cats, being about 2 ½ feet high.
The natives of India give the fishing cat a very bad reputation, and say it has been known to kill sheep and cows and dogs, and even to carry off human babies. It probably does not deserve such a bad reputation, but in any event it is a fierce fighter. One naturalist put a fishing cat in a stout cage, next to a tame leopard. The next morning he found the cat had broken through the partition and had killed the leopard, although the leopard was twice its size.
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