Rare photos capture fishing cat preying on monitor lizard in the Sundarbans

Mongabay
Sep 29, 2025, 5:47 am114 ptsTrending
In July, naturalist Soumyadip Santra was on a trip to the Indian Sundarbans, part of the world’s largest mangrove forest, when he witnessed an unusual scene: a fishing cat jumped on an adult monitor lizard and dragged it away toward some bushes. Santra’s photographs of the fishing cat in action captured a…

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