Leopard cat, it's a cat, leopard cat. Head length is 360-660 mm; The tail length is 200-370 mm; The length of hind foot is 80-130mm; Ear length is 35-55 mm; The total length of skull is 75-96 mm; Weight 1.5-5 kg. Leopard cats are also called "money cats" in China because their spots are very similar to those of copper coins in China. It is similar in size to a domestic cat, but slimmer and has longer legs. The coat color of southern species is light brown or light yellow, while the coat color of northern species is gray with black spots all over the body. There are spots on the side of the body, but they never form vertical stripes. Obvious white stripes extend from the nose to the eyes and often to the top of the head. The ears are big and sharp, black behind the ears with white spots. Two distinct black stripes extend from the inner corner of the eye to the root of the ear. There is a white stripe from the inner corner of the eye to the nose, and the snout is white. The tail is long (about 40-50% of the length of the head) and has a ring pattern at the tip of the black tail.
Leopard cats mainly inhabit mountain areas, rural bushes and forest-edge villages. The distribution altitude can be distributed from the coastal zone with low altitude to the mountainous forest area with an altitude of 3000 meters. They mainly feed on mice, squirrels, flying squirrels, rabbits, frogs, lizards, snakes, birds and insects, and sometimes sneak into villages to steal chickens, ducks and other poultry.
Leopard cats are listed in the List of Terrestrial Wild Animals under National Key Protection or with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value issued by China State Forestry Administration on August, 2000 1.
Included in the "List of National Key Protected Wild Animals in China" level 2.