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  • Less common animals in the area include golden cat Felis aurata, red-flanked duiker Cephalophus rufilatus, yellow-backed duiker C. sylvicultor and aardvark Orycteropus afer.

    Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009

  • Golden cat Felis aurata has recently been seen in the Ngorongoro forest.

    Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania 2009

  • There have also been reported sightings of the golden cat Felis aurata.

    Mount Kenya National Park and National Forest, Kenya 2009

  • Top predators, such as crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus), leopard (Panthera pardus, VU) and golden cat (Felis aurata) are still found at levels close to their natural range of variation.

    Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests 2008

  • Here the composition of the forest growing on the sandstone and shale hills is quite different from the forest growing on the limestone hills, although both share the dominant tree species Eberhardtia aurata, Hopea chinensis and Saraca chinensis.

    Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests 2008

  • Even top predators such as crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus), leopard (Panthera pardus) and golden cat (Felis aurata) are affected as their prey animals are hunted out.

    Northwestern Congolian lowland forests 2008

  • Other species include the endemic water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus, African golden cat Felis aurata (K), giant forest genet Genetta victoriae, the endemic aquatic genet Osbornictis piscivora, leopard Panthera pardus, giant ground pangolin Manis gigantea, aardvark orycteropus afer, pygmy antelope Neotragus batesii, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, bush pig Potamochoerus porcus and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (V) and great cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus.

    Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo 2008

  • Smaller predators include caracal (Caracal caracal), miombo genet (Genetta angolensis), as well as African golden cat (Profelis aurata), which periodically wanders into the ecoregion from its preferred moist forest habitat in the DRC.

    Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands 2007

  • The top carnivores in this ecoregion are leopard (Panthera pardus EN), golden cat (Profelis aurata), and African civet (Civettictis civetta).

    Eastern Guinean forests 2007

  • Cydnum fluvium navigarent aurata puppi, ipsa ad similitudinem

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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