Yellow-Throated Marten in Dhela Tourism Zone, Corbett Tiger Reserve

The Yellow-throated Marten (Martes flavigula) is the largest Marten occurring in the old world. Territorial in nature, it actively patrols its territory and may cover upto 20 km during the course of a single day & night. Known to hunt both on the ground and in the canopy of the trees, the Yellow-throated Matren’s diet includes rodents, birds, small reptiles and it regularly takes eggs and young ones from birds’ nests. It is often known to bring down prey which is larger than its own size and there are records of Rhesus Macaque, Grey Langur, Muntjac fawns, Musk Deer, Spotted Deer, Goral and Wild Boar piglets being hunted. It is also known to trail the Tigers and take opportunity to steal from their kills.

Yellow-throated Marten in distributed from Russia, Korea, Taiwan and southern China to south Asia including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bhutan and into South-east Asia. This Yellow-throated Marten was recorded in Dhela Zone of Corbett Tiger Reserve by Jim’s Jungle Retreat Chief Naturalist, Manoj Sharma, while it was scratching and grooming itself in a tree.