by Greg Mayer
Alert reader Dominic has sent me a link to EarthSky, which features camera trap photos of five species of cats from the island of Sumatra. The photos, taken by WWF-Indonesia, are further discussed at the WWF site. Here’s one of my favorites, a marbled cat, who seems to have noticed the camera, and isn’t entirely pleased:
This clouded leopard, doesn’t just look unpleased, it’s taking action:
The pictures were taken in an area threatened with deforestation, and WWF is urging that the area be protected. Interestingly, of 404 cat photos, 226 were of tigers; the rarest, at 4, was the marbled cat. We’ve had occasion previously to note here at WEIT the great use being made of camera traps for the study of rare and hard-to-see cats. The other species photographed are the tiger, Asiatic golden cat, and leopard cat (species account links are from the IUCN Cat Specialist Group). Bravo to WWF-Indonesia!
Is it just me or does that marbled cat have an image of Jesus on its head?
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GCM
I read this story in my ScienceDaily email but they did not have a link to the pix. Thanks for posting this, Greg!
Fantastic! Thanks Dominic, Greg and WWF!
as cute as domestic cats are, I hope this site posts more about the other species, many of which are endangered. save the kittehs!
Absolutely gorgeous cats.
I hope the kittehs can be looked after, they are all so beautiful.
Thanks for posting it Greg. It is so very sad – linking to Matthew’s post about the earth having maybe 1,000,000 million years left – not very much in the scheme of things.