Pallas Cat Range
This is set out on the customised map embedded into the page below. The original map can be refined by anyone willing and able to do so. It is a public map. It probably needs refining despite the care taken to produce it because it is from a smallish map (IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ (Red List) and in any event the distribution of wild cats is ever changing (diminishing and becoming more fragmented usually).
View Manul Geographic Range 2009 in a larger map
The pallas cat range covers these countries (as at Sept. 2009):
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- China
- India
- Iran
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Mongolia (see inner Mongolia in a photograph below)
- Pakistan
- Russia (see Russia’s Lake Baikal in a photograph below)
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Bhutan (possible)
- Nepal (possible)
There would appear to have been considerable fragmentation and some shrinkage over the last 10 years. What is the landscape like within the pallas cat range?
Where Pallas’s cat lives – On the edges of Lake Baikal
Russian Federation
Rocky outcrop in Inner Mongolia the habitat of the pallas cat or manul – photo by shenxy
The pallas cat mainly occupies the central Asian steppe grassland areas of China, Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. In some places it lives at a higher altitude as in Tien Shan and Gobi Altai where it lives at 3,000 – 4,000 metres above sea level (note: it may be extinct from the Gobi Altai as at 2009). This cat is limited in respect of habitat by its ineffectiveness in continuous snow cover of 15 – 20 cms deep.
Did you even read the article?? Wtf!!
Great comment. Enjoyed reading it. I totally agree with you. There is a pet shop near me where they sell kittens. I like the people and the products but hate the fact they sell animals. Horrible. They just don’t think about the consequences.
You have done really well taking on these cats but…too much really. It is the same old story, people like you and me mop up the mess that others create. The irresponsible lean on the responsible. It was ever thus.
People who care about animals can’t say no to saving an animal.
Hi Anette. Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Running a website about cats, I have to mention the cat breeds which leads to getting to know some breeders, who become friends, so I do have a problem criticising cat breeding. However, at heart, I am in harmony with you on this because there are too many unwanted cats.