Clouded Leopard Research Paper

Clouded Leopards eat a variety from food. They eat mainly deer, wild pigs, birds, monkeys and other small mammals. Some biotic factors of the rainforest, or rainforests, of Indonesia are jaguars, anteaters, lemurs, and many others. Some plants of many plant species are bamboo, banana trees, and rubber trees. Water, rain, rocks, the ground, the sky, and the climate, temperature, and weather are some abiotic factors.They are consumers, creatures that eat other living organisms to survive. Clouded leopards have a symbiotic relationship between fleas, ticks, and other mites that live on or inside of them. They live in Southeast Asia and the Himalayas. They also live in the following countries: Southern China, Bhutan, Nepal, Northeast India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. They are believed to be extinct in Taiwan, China. …show more content…
They have large spots, which are usually dark brown with a black outline. The spots help them camouflage in their forest surroundings. People have hunted clouded leopards for food and for their pelt, which they traded with Indian tribes. They also traded their bones and canine teeth with them. They also traded these body parts with outsiders for medicine use. Also their body parts were traded for decorative purposes. Humans are cutting down trees in the ecosystems where the clouded leopards live and leave them without food and shelter. This is killing clouded leopards. 227 clouded leopards are being held in captivity in 75 different places. Not many clouded leopards are seen in the wild