Yellow-throated Marten
Martes flavigula
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 707
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇳 India
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula) is a marten species native to the Himalayas, Southeast and East Asia. Its coat is bright yellow-golden, and its head and back are distinctly darker, blending together black, white, golden-yellow and brown. It is the second-largest marten in the Old World, after the Nilgiri marten, with its tail making up more than half its body length. It is an omnivore, whose sources of food range from fruit and nectar to invertebrates, rodents, lagomorphs, reptiles and birds, and to small primates and ungulates. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List due to its wide distribution, stable population, occurrence in a number of protected areas and an apparent lack of threats.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Yellow-throated marten”.