| Iriomote wildcat inhabits Yaeyama
Islands all over the world with the new species of the department
of a cat only on the Iriomote-jima Island. Bodily hair is dark brown,
the weight is 4.5kg, and the length of a trunk is about 50cm, the
length of a tail amounts to 30cm from 25cm, somewhat larger than
an ordinary cat. The number of habitations is approximately less
than 100, and it tends to work at the time of dawn or twilight.
It is excellent in tree climbing, swimming. Although birds are mainly
liked and eaten, various things, such as the mammals, insect and
amphibians, the crustacean, shellfish, fish, and the department
of rice, are eaten. |
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