I came across some notes off the Hong Kong Wildlife.net Forum from
October 2006 a few days ago which whilst old, ( I presume 2006-10-6 means
October 6th 2006 though of course it may mean June 10th 2006) are very
important because they throw up a few mysteries and the value of amateur
research out there in what is worryingly becoming known as Greater China in
some media outlets. Worrying for geo-political events I
mean.
The communications concerned a fauna survey of Dowell
Hill Country Park, which I`ve not been able to locate on the Net. On October
6th `BWA` comments on wild boar, barking deer,otters bats and monkeys.
On the same day Blue-Owen mentions "microphone Bobcats" ,but
although there are leopard cats there have only ever been two reports on
bobcats or lynx in HK and that was before 2006. One was an Eurasian lynx in
1961 in the New Territories. "Microphone bobcats" may mean leopard cats being
tracked by a
tagging device. The bob cat is traditionally an American animal.
Blue Owen also uses the phrase "red-bellied squirrels." ,but this is endemic
to Sulawesi in Indonesia. There are also red-bellied squirrels in
Taiwan.
Styan`s squirrel is in HK, see below, image from
HKWildlife.net. Unidentified squirrels have been reported from HK but not
red-bellied. As far as I
know.
`Eco` says on 6-10-06 :" In
view of the geographical distribution of
animals, cats have been spotted in
Hong Kong there should be the following:
the South China Tiger (Panthera
tigris); leopard (Panthera pardus);clouded
leopard (Neofilis nebulosa); Asian
golden cat (Catopuma temminckii); ocelot
(Felis bengalensis) ;cloud cat (
Felis marmorata) ; fishing cat (Felis
viverrina) ; jungle cat (Felis Chaus)
...Ocelots may have once been in Hong
Kong and "clouded leopards are also
recorded in the past appeared in Hong
Kong: December 28,1990,one clouded
leopard is found in Shantung St, Mong
Kok...when it was huddled in a trolley
at the end,claws". (Emphasis
mine.Remember this is the poor quality Google
translation.) "Finally by the
time the 5 staff members with a set of
dogs...(it) was sent to Hong Kong
Zoological and Botanical Gardens as a
temporary shelter."
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