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When not spending a nice relaxing day fishing, this feline species will hunt for other tasty prey items including rodents, frogs, snails, snakes and small birds. Their partially webbed paws create a perfect weapon for scooping fish, frogs and other aquatic species from their watery home. As you can imagine, these same webbed paws also help make the Fishing Cat an impressive swimmer. In fact, they have been known to swim long distances, up to 22 square kilometres (8.5 square miles). If this isn’t incredible enough, they will actually use their flattened tail as a rudder to help them steer while swimming underwater. Their swimming ability would be impressive for most animals but I personally think it is extra spectacular since they are a CAT. All those myths about cats not liking water have pretty much gone out the window at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday while walking through the wetlands of Southeast Asia, we discovered the tallest flying bird. Today, we learn about a birds arch nemesis, the Fishing Cat. Okay, so perhaps, this particular bird and cat are not enemies but in general, cats eat birds, right? Although, if the Sarus Crane wasn’t so gosh darn big, the Fishing Cat may try to feast on it since these cats enjoy living in a similar habitat…..wetlands. That’s right, a feline that loves water. Sure it sounds weird but it works out great for this particular cat since they are allowed to eat as many <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[114,3171,4115,4025],"yoast_head":"\n
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