The Rusty-spotted cat is one of the cat family’s smallest members, of which historical records are known only from India and Sri Lanka.

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Rusty-spotted cats are solitary, living alone in forests, more recently in agricultural areas dominated by humans.

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Very little is known about the lives of these cats, although they are thought to be nocturnal.

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Rusty-spotted cats are smaller than house cats and have slender bodies. Described as a ‘washed-out’ smaller version of the leopard cat, their more rusty-colored tail measures about half the length of their body, and is thick with less distinct spots.

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The biggest and most serious threat to the Rusty-spotted cat has been deforestation and cultivation, causing large-scale habitat loss.

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In botany, algology is the scientific study of algae. It is also referred to as phycology. It is a sub-discipline of botany since algae are more closely related to plants rather than other groups, such as animals.

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Dendrochronology is the science that deals with the dating and study of the annual growth increments, or tree rings, in woody trees and shrubs.

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Bernhard Naunyn, Oswald Schmiedeberg, and Rudolf Buchheim were the founders of pharmacology. The birth of pharmacology took place in Tartu (Dorpat), Estonia.

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Limnology is the study of inland waters – lakes (both freshwater and saline), reservoirs, rivers, streams, wetlands, and groundwater – as ecological systems interacting with their drainage basins and the atmosphere.

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A zymurgist is a scientist who studies the chemical process of fermentation in brewing and distilling.

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