[Vision2020] Caturday (September 10, 2011)

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of reuters at:

http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/09/08/african-golden-cat-makes-video-debut?videoId=221357191&videoChannel=6

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A Fully Grown African Golden Cat

Scientists at Panthera, the conservation group, say they still can't
believe their luck. A fully grown African Golden Cat, one of the
continent's most elusive creatures, wanders nonchalantly up to a
video-camera trap, sits down, and provides the most detailed view ever of
the cat in the wild. The camera-trap was set by Phd student Laila
Bahaa-el-din in a part of a Gabon forest set aside for logging. She'd
already captured images of the cat with a stills camera during a study
into the impact of human activity on the species, but thought she could do
better with video. She was right. Few western scientists have ever
observed the living animal in the wild. The African Golden Cat hunts at
night. It feeds mainly on rodents, but is also known to eat small monkeys
and birds. It'll also eat a bat, if it can catch it. Panthera says its
study is the first comprehensive analysis of the ecological status of the
African Golden Cat and the threats affecting its survival.

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Video
http://tinyurl.com/3drfnce

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