Yellow Throated Marten

The Yellow Throated Marten is an incredible and colorful animal that you get to learn about let's begin. Male Yellow throated martens weigh 5.5 to 12.6 pounds while females weigh 3.5 to 8.4 pounds. The coat of the Yellow Throated Marten as said in the name is a brownish yellow color with the tail and the head being brown. The Yellow throated Marten lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the Himalayas of India, Nepal and Bhutan, continental southern China and Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula and eastern Russia. In the south, its range extends to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The Yellow Throated hunts in the day because it is a diurnal animal. They usually hunt in pairs, but they sometimes will hunt with three individuals. They also target smaller game such as rats, mice, hares, snakes, lizards, eggs and ground nesting birds such as pheasants and francolins. They have also been reported to eat cats and poultry. They have also been known to trail tigers and eat their kill, and in China they eat giant panda cubs. In the winter months they will usually hunt musk deer. It will also eat nectar and fruits. Breeding season for the Yellow Throated Marten is between mid February to late march. Its predators include Asiatic Black bears, Siberian Tigers, and have been found in the stomach of a Mountain hawk Eagle. I hope You enjoyed Learning about the Yellow Throated Marten.