| *Golden cats are found in Asia and Africa. The Asian golden cat is remarkably polymorphic in its pelage. The most common coloration is fox-red to gold-brown. It is predominantly nocturnal. It's other names:Temminck’s cat (English);chat doré d’Asie (French); Asiatische Goldkatze (German); gato dorado asiatico (Spanish); shonali biral (Bengali: Bangladesh, India); jin mao, huang hu, zhi ma bao (Chinese); kucing emas (Indonesia); sua meo, sua pa (Laos); kucing tulap, harimau anjing (Malaysia); ya min, kyaung min (Myanmar); hso hpai, miao thon (Shan); sua fai [fire tiger] (Thailand); but is nicknamed above all else as The Rock Cat!
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