Rare Footage of Pallas’s Cat Cubs in Mongolia’s Zoolon Mountains

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/01/rare-footage-of-pallass-cat-cubs-in-mongolias-zoolon-mountains/

by pshaw • 10 years ago

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homero• 10 years ago

Cats can see infrared

serf• 10 years ago

Not really.[0]

I didn't know this off the top of my head or anything, the cats' eyes in the video reflecting the IR back at the camera prompted my searching for the answer.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Can-cats-see-IR

personlurking• 10 years ago

There's an April 2016 BuzzFeed video [1m30s] with facts about this cat. You might want to mute it (electronic music overlay).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpakZ0fHzck

dharma1• 10 years ago

Awesome. Looks like something out of a Studio Ghibli film. Wonder if the round pupils mean it is less of a night hunter

Edit: the answer - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full

xarope• 10 years ago

2 years ago I found out about sand cats (google them, the ears are amazing). But these Pallas cats are positively prehistoric looking!

haversine02• 10 years ago

Pallas cats are one of my favourite animals. I've had the luck of seeing a very vocal and grumpy one in person. They also have a very unique low meow, which also sounds like they're constantly pissed off: http://www.bioacoustica.org/gallery/sounds/Felis_manul1.wav https://youtu.be/DKmBt9sA9hk

arethuza• 10 years ago

Sounds like one of our pair of Burmese cats - same cat can do a remarkably good impersonation of a young child saying "mum".

lostlogin• 10 years ago

Pair? You're brave. We had one and it was both noisy and destructive.

dominotw• 10 years ago

That cat looks like its actually pissed off.

rwmj• 10 years ago

Hunted for their pelts. Don't buy real fur coats.

dahjelle• 10 years ago

If you are ever near Fargo, ND, the Red River Zoo[1] has 3 that you can come see in person! :-)

[1] http://redriverzoo.org/animals/pallas-cat/

Rare Footage of Pallas’s Cat Cubs in Mongolia’s Zoolon Mountains

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