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The Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus), commonly called Malaha Biralo, one of the 13 cat species in Nepal, is a medium sized cat found primarily in wetland areas, and native to Asia including Nepal. It is threatened to extinction by habitat loss, depletion of fish populations, road accidents, retaliatory killing and predators.
A group of conservationists, however, have complained and written letters to the chief wildlife warden of Bengal that the relocation was taking the fishing cats away from their natural habitat through human intervention
Apart from fish, a fishing cat also eats birds, insects, small rodents, molluscs and reptiles including snakes and amphibians.
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