Rare Footage of Pallas’s Cat Cubs in Mongolia’s Zoolon Mountains(voices.nationalgeographic.com)

82 pointsby pshawvor 10 Jahren11 comments

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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/

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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

dominotwvor 10 Jahren

That cat looks like its actually pissed off.

arethuzavor 10 Jahren

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

lostloginvor 10 Jahren

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

personlurkingvor 10 Jahren

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

dharma1vor 10 Jahren

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

rwmjvor 10 Jahren

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

dahjellevor 10 Jahren

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/

xaropevor 10 Jahren

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

homerovor 10 Jahren

Cats can see infrared

serfvor 10 Jahren

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

[deleted]vor 10 Jahren