A Cat That Rewrote the Anatomy of Climbing
The clouded leopard's canine teeth are the longest, relative to skull size, of any living cat on earth. That single biological fact has been confirmed, measured, and published, and it is one of the few things about this animal that science can state without a qualifier. The rest of what researchers know about Neofelis nebulosa, the species found across northeastern India and into Southeast Asia, comes mostly from camera trap images, captive individuals, and educated inference. Wild population data for India is thin enough that the Wildlife Institute of India has flagged it as a species requiring urgent survey work. No reliable national estimate exists.
