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The Visayan Leopard Cat, or Maral or Tamaral as they are locally called, is an endemic Sunda Leopard Cat population in the Philippine Islands of Negros, Cebu, Masbate, and Panay.

In general, Leopard Cats fare well wherever they are found in the world. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of our Visayan Leopard Cats — as saddening as it was to find one of them dead in Antique, perhaps it is not surprising.

Visayan Leopard Cats inhabit residual forest patches, their once lush home now almost completely gone to make way for human development.

There have also been reported sightings in sugarcane plantations in Cebu.