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After watching this video, I looked up the village of Paddapukur and was surprised to learn that, despite rustic appearances, it is a part of Calcutta —

— and so are fishing cats, apparently:

This video is titled “Fishing cats: The hunters of Kolkata’s waters.”

Their neighborhood reportedly is the East Kolkata Wetlands.

A little farther out, but still along the coast, Mongabay tells us, fishing cats prowl the mangroves of Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, shown here:

This muscular small cat with a tiger’s personality is also found outside the sanctuary, and it eats other things besides fish.

The Fishing Cat Project offers this factual but dreamy general video about fishing cats:

More information:

• The Cat Specialist Group’s article on fishing cats.
• The Fishing Cat Conservation Alliance page.
• Mongabay on “the quiet world of small wild felids” in India.

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