Question:
clouded leopard food chain/web?
Starrberry
2009-12-01 05:30:04 UTC
I need a food chain or web for clouded leopards that includes 3 producers, 3 herbivores, 3 carnivores.
Three answers:
mejxu
2009-12-02 10:27:41 UTC
Producers:

Eaten by herbivores:

Plants like grass, trees ( oak , hickory ), different herbs



Herbivores:

Eaten by clouded leopard:

Porcupine is ecologically important as part of terrestrial food chains, consuming vegetative matter like leaves, twigs, bark, fruits, and green plants

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Porcupine

Deer are primarily herbivores and eat an enormous variety of plants, and different parts of plants in all seasons, f.e. acorns, nuts, leaves bark, complete herbs.

http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/a_closer_look_at_wildlife/deer.html

Goats the third herbivores prefer to browse on the tips of woody shrubs and trees, as well as the occasional broad-leaved plant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat#Diet



Omnivores:

Eaten by clouded leopard:

masked palm civets ingest mainly fruits, but they also eat small vertebrates, insects, and birds

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Paguma_larvata.html



Carnivores:

Eaten by clouded leopard:

Malayan pangolins are also known as scaly anteaters; they are extreme specialist (myrmecophages) eating only ants and termites.

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Manis_javanica.html



The clouded leopard’s diet includes birds, monkeys, pigs, cattle, goats, deer, and porcupines

( argus pheasant, stump-tailed macaque, slow loris, silvered leaf monkey, sambar, hog deer, Indian muntjac, lesser mouse-deer, wild boar, bearded pig, Malayan pangolin, Indochinese ground squirrel, Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine, and masked palm civet. )

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/CloudedLeopard/factsheet.cfm



The main predators of clouded leopards are humans

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Neofelis_nebulosa.html
anonymous
2016-03-13 14:16:21 UTC
The clouded leopard would be the top predator, except in areas that is inhabited by the leopard and tiger.
anonymous
2016-09-12 16:27:35 UTC
I also asked this same question 2 times, and didn't receive an answer


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