flat-headed cat
prionailurus planiceps latin

Flat-headed cats occur in both primary and secondary forest.

Flat-headed cats are presumably solitary, and probably maintain their home ranges by scent marking.

Flat-headed cats are primarily threatened by wetland and lowland forest destruction and degradation.

Vocalizations of a flat-headed cat kitten resembled those of a domestic cat.

These features help the flat-headed cat to catch and retain aquatic prey, to which it is at least as well adapted as the fishing cat.

- Flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps)

The flat-headed cat was initially placed in the genus Felis by Vigors and Horsfield, who first described the felid in 1827 from Sumatra.

Flat-headed cats are very rare in captivity, with less than 10 individuals, all kept in Malaysian and Thai zoos as recorded by ISIS.

The Flat-headed Cat is considered endangered by IUCN and listed on appendix 1 by CITES.

The flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) is a small wild cat patchily distributed in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra.

The flat-headed cat is distinguished at once by the extreme depression of the skull, which extends along the nose to the extremity of the muzzle, the sides of which are laterally distended.

The cheetah's paws have semi-retractable claws (known only in three other cat species: the fishing cat, the flat-headed cat and the Iriomote cat), offering extra grip in its high-speed pursuits.

The distribution of flat-headed cats is restricted to lowland tropical rainforests in extreme southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei Darussalam, Kalimantan and Sumatra.

The flat-headed cat is included on CITES Appendix I. The felid is fully protected by national legislation over its range, with hunting and trade prohibited in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.