New record on Asiatic Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae): photographic evidence of its westernmost distribution in Gaurishankar Conservation Area, Nepal

The Asiatic Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii is poorly known in Nepal and was previously recorded only twice in the eastern part of the country.  We conducted a camera trap survey in the Lapchi Valley (32km2) of Gaurishankar Conservation Area (GCA), a protected area in north-central Nepal, from Octobe...

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Main Authors: Narayan Prasad Koju, Bijay Bashyal, Bishnu Prasad Pandey, Shankar Thami, Man Kumar Dhamala, Satya Narayan Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society 2020-02-01
Series:Journal of Threatened Taxa
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Online Access:https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/5227