The animals in Sichuan Maoweizi generally refer to leopard cats. The cats in Sichuan and the Yangtze River Estuary mostly refer to leopard cats, also called "chicken leopards". They can hunt domestic cats, chickens, ducks and other small livestock.
They play an important regulatory role in the ecosystem, such as controlling the number of prey through predation, thereby producing Cascading effect. Big cats have strong dispersal abilities and can spread plant seeds attached to their bodies to distant areas.
