QUICK FACTS
Name: Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii)
Where it lives: China, Nepal, Southeast Asia and northeastern India
What it eats: Birds, reptiles, small mammals like rodents and larger mammals like young deer
The Asian golden cat, also known as the Asiatic golden cat or Temminck's cat, is a feline endemic to some of Asia's densest forests. It comes in a wide palette of colors, plucks birds before eating them and — despite weighing no more than 35 pounds (16 kilograms), or two to three times as much as a domestic cat — is bold enough to kill prey such as buffalo calves, small muntjacs and baby deer.
