Fishing cat

Who says felines don’t like water? Quite the contrary… The fishing cat is a fine example of adaptation to life in wetlands. Able to swim at depths of 1 metre, it has a short, broad tail used as a rudder and a rostrum-shaped mouth, enabling it to easily catch its prey in the water.
Increasingly common in European zoos, the fishing cat is under increasing threat in the wild, not least because of the draining of wetlands by man in South-East Asia.