This record expands the range of bay cats to the north.

The bay cat is much smaller than the Asian golden cat.

The bay cat's classification as Catopuma was widely recognized until 2006.

Bay cats are endemic to Borneo and widely distributed on the island.

Small cats such as the bay cat and various civet cats are also found.

There are no bay cats in captivity.

Bay cats have historically been recorded as rare and today seem to occur at relatively low density, even in pristine habitat.

He reported that the bay cats entered his aviary and attacked his pheasants.

The Asian golden cat is similar to the bay cat of Borneo in both appearance and behavior.

Bay cats are forest-dependent, and are increasingly threatened by habitat destruction following deforestation in Borneo.

It is one of only two felids for which no subspecies have been classically described (the Bay Cat is the other).

Bay cat (Catopuma badia)

- Bornean bay cat (Pardofelis badia)

These observations led to the assumption that the Borneo bay cat is an insular subspecies of the Asian golden cat.

The secretive and nocturnal behavior of bay cats, and possibly their low population density, may be an important cause of the rarity of sightings.

A local animal collector near Lachau, Sarawak, claimed that he accidentally trapped two bay cats on separate occasions in December 2003.

In 2002, a bay cat was photographed in Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak.

They inhabit forested environments in South East Asia, with the Bay Cat being restricted to the island of Borneo.

At present, this genus is defined as including three species native to Southeast Asia: the marbled cat, the bay cat and the Asian golden cat.

Alfred Russel Wallace sent the first skin and skull of a bay cat from Sarawak to the British Museum of Natural History in 1855.

Genetic analysis has shown that it is closely related with the Asian golden cat and the bay cat, all of which diverged from the other felids about 9.4 million years ago.

Almost all the historical and recent records are from close proximity to water bodies such as rivers and mangroves, suggesting that the bay cat may be closely associated with such habitat.

Lineage 1A: Pardofelis (Marbled Cat), Catopuma (Bay Cat, Asian Golden Cat)

Catopuma is a genus containing two small Asian felines, the Bay Cat (C. badia) and the Asian Golden Cat (C. temminckii).

Genetic analysis carried out at the turn of the century revealed a close genetic relationship with the Borneo bay cat Pardofelis badia and the Asian golden cat Pardofelis temminckii.

- Bornean bay cat (Pardofelis badia)

Genetic analysis carried out at the turn of the century revealed a close genetic relationship with the Borneo bay cat Pardofelis badia and the Asian golden cat Pardofelis temminckii.

The British zoologist Reginald Innes Pocock recognized the taxonomic classification of Pardofelis in 1917 as comprising not only the marbled cat but also the Borneo bay cat Pardofelis badia, because of similarities in the shape of their skulls.