#flat-headed cat

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The Felidae

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Včera mi byla po asi dvou letech přítelkyní připomenuta existence kočky plochočelé. Jsou to opravdu kuriózní miciny, není toho o nich mnoho známo, do roku 1995 se dokonce věřilo, že vyhynuly, ale naštěstí jsou stále mezi námi!

Plochočelky (a nebo jim ještě říkám plackočky, v angličtině se totiž jmenují flat-headed cat) žijí na ostrovech Borneo a Sumatra a taky na Malajském poloostrově. Je možné, že i jinde, ale to už se neví. Neví se ani, kolik jich může vlastně být. Živí se rybami, k jejichž lovu mají dokonce i speciálně uzpůsobený chrup a mezi prsty na packách plovací blánu. Tu kromě plochočelek mají taky jejich příbuzné kočky rybářské. Ale pozor, plackočky se neživí jen rybami, ale taky obojživelníky a rády si pochutnají na sladkých bramborách.

Podle mě jsou to tak trochu ošklivé příšerky a na některých fotografiích mi hodně připomínají outloně, na jiných vydry obrovské (pokud nevíte, jak vypadají, dobře pro vás). To nic nemění na tom, že jsou velice kůl!

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Flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps)

📸 andyaj58 AJ

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Phylogenetic wild cat tournament

Leopard cat lineage

Genus: Prionailurus

Depth: 10 (9 wins away from championship)

Two pleasantly weird-looking cats, both living around water in Southeast Asia and preying mostly on fish. (My favourite sentence of flat-headed cat's wikipedia page: "They have been observed to wash objects, raccoon-style.") The fishing cat shows the standard Prionailurus spots, while the flat-headed cat is the only non-spotted member of the genus. (It's still agouti, not solid colored - in domestic cat terms, this pattern would be called ticked tabby.)

Fishing cat

Flat-headed cat

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A rare image of a Flat-headed Cat (Prionailurus planiceps) at night, Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.

Contributed by Danielle Garbouchian (Photo: Sebastian Kennerknecht/Panthera)

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[ID: a photo of a flat-headed cat and a photo of an ocelot. the flat-headed cat is a small cat with a red coat. it has very small ears, making the top of its head fairly flat. the ocelot is a medium sized yellow cat with cloud-like markings, a mix of stripes and spots. end ID]

[mirtadraws]

Inktober day 22 - flat-headed cat

This year I'm drawing wild cat species for Inktober. Which one would you like to see? Only a few spots left on my list!

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Rare photos give a glimpse into the lives of wild cats in Malaysia’s tropical jungles

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/h6ldV

Rare photos give a glimpse into the lives of wild cats in Malaysia’s tropical jungles

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[annuskabriar]

asian small wild cats! this is just everyone i could find that seemed to have their ranges go into asia. this is on etsy as a print here and sticker pack here!

[halfbaked00q]

I have no clue if this is an underserved niche for realsies or just to me, but.

need more fics of James Bond breaking into Q's flat. but not just for, like, to force Q to stitch him up or to proposition him or whatever. But just to hang out lol. Like full on, "new stray cat that showed up one day and I guess I have another cat now?" He is just there to hang out maybe nap and sometimes bother Q's cats and also Q himself. and also eat his food. But at least he also *brings* food too, and, idk, sometimes he cooks? so I guess that's.... okay...? (<- Q trying to justify this to himself lmao)

Q is suddenly like. I guess I kind of have a roommate now that isn't fully a roommate cuz he doesn't really live here all the time except maybe he might as well do? lowkey I do still picture Bond disappearing at night, like, he doesn't stay the night. at least at first. very much the way a visiting cat/new friendly stray on the block would.

And then one day (night). Q has some emergency to take care of or sth and is working late, but ig it's not so bad that he can't work from home about it. And he stumbles out of his home office to go to his kitchen. and stops dead in his tracks cuz. there is James Bond, conked out on his sofa, one cat on his chest the other like, almost sitting on his head. Q, befuddled,. just goes to his linen closet and gets an extra blanket and covers him properly (and tucks him in) cuz the throw blanket is okay, but like throw blankets tend to be, lowkey on the smaller side, so like. tuck him in and make him comfy

and then Bond becomes more and more of "guess you are *my* cat now?"

and also at some point they get together, too, I guess, lol. But I think somehow they end up in bed together (literally in bed together) first, before it progresses to that point lol

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The flat-headed cat has eyes positioned farther forward and closer together than other cats, which maximizes binocular vision and makes them especially good at finding and catching food in water. ©Photo Ark

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Galaxia🪽🌟 3.0

[kittybroker]

Doudou?

The flat headed freak returns! A benign yet unusual creature, Doudou can be found for only $15.67! Peculiar indeed!

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Phylogenetic wild cat tournament

Leopard cat lineage

Genus: Prionailurus - Final

Depth: 9 (8 wins away from championship)

Enter: our last Prionailurus species, the rusty-spotted cat - this means it was the first one to separate, and so it's the furthest relative of the other species of the genus.

It's also the second smallest feline of the world. And it has rusty spots. So cool.

Flat-headed cat

Rusty-spotted cat

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Flat-Headed Cat (Prionailurus planiceps)

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