How Fishing Cats Prionailurus viverrinus fish: Describing a felid’s strategy to hunt aquatic 1 prey 2 *Divyajyoti Ganguly AND Tiasa Adhya 3 Department of Zoology, Maulana Azad College, Calcutta University, 8, Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Rd, 4 Taltala, Kolkata, West Bengal 700013(DG). 5 Centre for Conservation of Natural Resources, The University of Trans-disciplinary Health 6 Sciences and Technology, 74/2, Post Attur via Yelahanka, Jarakabande Kaval, Bengaluru, 7 Karnataka 560064 (TA). 8 The Fishing Cat Project, Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation, 90 Rincon Rd, Corrales, 9 NM,87048-7619USA(TA). 10 *Correspondent: ganguly.divyajyoti@gmail.com 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. The copyright holder for this preprint (which this version posted April 25, 2020. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.24.058925 doi: bioRxiv preprint