Yellow-throated marten

Yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula )

The Yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula ) is an Asian marten, which is spread from southeastern Siberia, China and the Malay Peninsula to Borneo and Java. Together with the Indian Charsa or the Indian Yellow-throated marten, it forms the subgenus Charronia within the genus of the Real marten (Martes ).

Features

The fur of the Yellow-throated marten is colored predominantly light brown. Her head, the legs, the back of the fuselage and the tail are dark brown or black. Similar to the pine marten, they have a yellow throat patch. The spread in South India Indian Yellow-throated marten is similar to the Yellow-throated marten strong. The differences between the two species are predominantly in the form of the skull, which is significantly flatter when Indian Charsa. Yellow-throated marten reach a head -body length of 45 to 65 cm, a tail length of 37-45 cm and a weight of 2 to 3 kg.

Way of life

Yellow-throated marten are diurnal forest dwellers and go mainly on the ground in search of food, but they can also climb very well. To their food include mammals such as rodents and pikas, birds' eggs, frogs, insects, honey and fruit. Sometimes they also impose juveniles of musk deer and other cloven-hoofed animals. In times of food shortage they also eat carrion, snakes and lizards, and insects.

Threat

Unlike many other marten species Yellow-throated marten have never hunted on a large scale for their fur. Since they sometimes break hives because of their fondness for honey and eaten in some regions of their flesh, they are persecuted, but the main threat is loss of habitat through deforestation. The species as a whole is not considered threatened at present. However, the Javanese subspecies ( M. f robin soni ), is classified as endangered.

Subspecies

We distinguish six subspecies of ferrous marten:

  • M. f flavigula - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Central, East and South China, Nepal, Pakistan
  • M. borealis f - Northeast China, Korea, Far East Russia
  • M. f chrysophila - Taiwan
  • M. f indochinensis - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • M. f peninsularis - Borneo, Sumatra, Mayaiische Peninsula
  • M. f robin soni - Java
Mustelidae European pine marten
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