Yellow-Throated Marten
Martes flavigula
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Kingdom: Animalia Class: Mammalia
Phylum: Chordata Order: Carnivora
Subphylum: Vertebrata Family: Mustelidae
Superclass: Tetrapoda
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India to Southeast Asia. In temperate and coniferous forest.
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The Yellow-throated Marten is a medium -sized carnivore that has a orange-yellow to dark brown coat, with a creamy yellow throat and a bushy black tail. It has large, round ears that sit on its wedge-shaped head.
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The Yellow-throated marten is one of Korea's larger predatory animals. It is a solitary animal that has adapted well to forest life. Its front paws and strong legs are ideal for gripping branches, while its tail helps maintain its balance. This medium- sized carnivore is slightly diurnal, but hunts both in trees and on the ground at night. It is preyed upon by other lager carnivores and eagles, and is occasionally killed by humans for it's pelt. When in danger it escapes up into the trees and releases a noxious smell. This agile climber is also adapted well for moving on the ground using long leaps to bound across the forest floor.
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Its diet consists mainly of squirrels and mice, but it will also eat small birds, arthropods, and soft fleshy fruits and berries.
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Yellow-throated martens mate in late summer around August and give birth sometime in April. Like other martins, they have a gestation period of 120 days. They have liter sizes of 2-5 pups. The female gives sole parental care for up to three or four months.
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The yellow-throated marten an endangered species. It is listed as an Appendix III of CITES and is listed in Schedule II part II of the Indian Wildlife Act of 1972.
Mustelids,
Viverrids, and Herpestids of India
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