What affects us affects cats
The world’s two most damaging natural products with respect to forests are: palm oil and natural rubber. The once vast, natural and ancient forests of Asia and Africa are inhabited by many precious wild species including notable wild cat species such as the Sumatran tiger, the Borneo bay cat, the African golden cat and …
This map shows you where clouded leopards live. It is in the form a globe so you can get a feel where this wild cat lives in relation to the rest of the world. I did not actually intend to publish this on a separate page. But I like it and it looks better …
Although: it is used for ‘normal movement’¹ and the tail reflects emotions through boy language, and provides signals to other cats, the tail is not an essential piece of anatomy for the domestic cat. You only have to ask people who keep bob-tailed cats to find out. The Japanese Bobtail and the American Bobtail …
This article is over several pages for technical reasons with links at the base of each section to the next page. Overview With the margay, the clouded leopard is probably the best tree climber of all the wildcats. It is a forest dwelling cat. It also has a coat, that resembles cloud formations, which …
by Michael (London, UK) Clouded Leopard Cub – photo by Smithsonian’s National Zoo Is modern clouded leopard conservation gradually confining itself to conservation in captivity? I don’t know but I am beginning to feel that it might be the case. The reason why I say this is because I never see stories about how …
by Michael (London, UK) 13th Feb 2010: This brief post contains a fascinating piece of video that is the first to be made public. There are plenty of still photographs of clouded leopards in zoos and the very occasional camera trap still image but it is very rare indeed to film a clouded leopard …
The importance of focusing on the clouded leopard population is highlighted by these gorgeous cubs. As the forests are mercilessly exploited in Asia, so is the clouded leopard for its glorious coat. As the virgin tropical rain forest is cut down the population of the clouded leopard is rapidly diminishing as this is a …
2009: The Clouded Leopard range (geographic distribution) is presented in an embedded customised Google map. Note: the ranges for both Neofelis nebulosa (purple) and the recently classified Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi – blue) are shown. I would like people to collaborate in making it better. That is not because it is not good. …
