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Friday, January 23, 2009
Flat-headed cat photographed in Danum
Last April we obtained our first (and to date only) photograph of a flat-headed cat. This is the first time this species has been photographed within the Ulu Segama Forest Reserve and this record means that the Ulu Segama is the first known forest on Borneo where there is definitive evidence of the existence of the entire 5-species Bornean felid guild. The flattie was photo-captured in an area of primary forest about 300m away from the Danum Valley Field Centre buildings. To date we have collected over a thousand leopard cat and over two hundred Sunda clouded leopard photos, which demonstrates just how rare this little cat is. The flattie’s conservation status was raised to endangered earlier this year by the IUCN: http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/18148
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4 comments:
What a great news! well done!!
This is a remarkable event. If we work harder and help to ensure the habitats for these endangered cats and other rainforest inhabitants, maybe we'll get similarly fortunate more often.
Well done Andy. We've been following your progress since we met you and Jo with your Dad at the Sakau Lodge last year and talked about this very cat.
Hi Andy and Jo,
Great Job on the flatties! You guys finally nailed it. One suggestion: it would be great to post larger photos in this blog for obvious reason. We are promoting the conservation of these species. The first thing to do is to show people how are these critters look like.
Congratulation!