Abstract
The genus Prionailurus consists of forest dwelling spotted cats ranging across most of India (Sunquist and Sunquist 2002, Menon 2003). Few studies have been done on their presence and distribution across the Eastern Ghats. The present note reports the first camera trap records of the Leopard Cat Prionailurus benghalensis Kerr, 1792 and Rusty Spotted Cat, Prionailurus rubiginosus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831 from the Papikonda National Park, situated in the northern Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh.
Highlights
1,2 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Sriramapura, Jakkur post, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India
A total of 35 grids representing various habitat types and elevation zones were surveyed between October 2014 and March 2015
P. bengalensis was recorded in one camera in dense moist deciduous forest at an elevation around 270m, close to a rocky stream (Image 1)
Summary
1,2 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Sriramapura, Jakkur post, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India. Vikram Aditya 1 & Thyagarajan Ganesh 2 1 Manipal University, Madhav Nagar, Manipal, Karnataka 576104, India 1 vikram.aditya@atree.org (corresponding author), 2 tganesh@atree.org
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