Table 1. Body size and diet of the five common mesocarnivores according to studies from China and Southeast Asia.

Data of body sizes are from Smith et al. [30]. Relative importance of food sources was classified into three categories: P, primary; S, secondary; and O, occasional.

Species	Body size (kg)	Invertebrates	Smaller vertebrates		Plants	Source
			Others (reptiles, amphibians, birds)	Small mammal
Masked palm civeta	3–7	O	S	P	P	Zhou et al. [27]
Yellow-throated martena	0.8–2.8		O	P		Chiang et al. [31]
		O	S	P	S	Zhou et al. [28]
Hog badger	9.7–12.5	P	O	O	S	Zhou et al. [32]
Leopard cat	1.5–5		S	P		Shehzad et al. [25]
			S	P	Pb	Xiong et al. [26]
		S	O	P		Grassman et al. [33]
		O	S	P		Rajaratnam et al. [34]
Siberian weasel	0.5–1.2	S	O	P		Chiang et al. [31]

a According to Zhou et al. [27, 28], masked palm civets and yellow-throated marten feed primarily on fruits and small mammals, and they switch their diet in response to the seasonally available fruits.

Xiong et al. [26] observed high occurrence of plant material in scats of leopard cats using DNA-based method.