Prionailurus viverrinus
Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Wasgamuwa National Park, aggregated onto a 50 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.
Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.
A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 1 square of 50 km carry records for Fishing Cat in and around Wasgamuwa National Park, and the 0 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.
Stocky and muscular, the Fishing Cat is roughly double the size of a typical house cat. Its yellowish-grey or tawny fur is patterned with black spots and lines, while its ears are short, rounded, and marked with a white spot on the back. This species is unique for its partly webbed paws and claws that do not fully retract. Its dense, layered coat acts as a thermal barrier, allowing it to swim long distances or dive underwater.
Written from the English Wikipedia article Fishing cat (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Of the 2 species with an atlas page recorded in and around Wasgamuwa National Park, the Fishing Cat is the 2nd most recorded.
The full atlas page, and everywhere else it is recorded