Elusive Cat Once Thought Extinct is Alive and OK in Borneo

The gray bay cats captured in the recent photos are even more rare than the red variety, seen here. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost everything scientists know about the Bornean bay cat is based on just 12 samples, the first of which was a skin collected in 1855 in Sarawak, Malaysia. In the several decades following this original discovery, seven other skins appeared. It wasn’t until 1992 that a living specimen was obtained. Then, after another was captured in 1998, the species disappeared. It was widely thought to be extinct until a photograph was taken of a single cat in … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Elusive Cat Once Thought Extinct is Alive and OK in Borneo

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