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Rare Footage of Pallas’s Cat Cubs in Mongolia’s Zoolon Mountains

82 points by pshaw 10y ago

homero 10y ago
Cats can see infrared
- serf 10y ago
  Not really.[0] I didn't know this off the top of my head or anything, the cats' eyes in the video reflecting the IR back at the camera prompted my searching for the answer. [0]: https://www.quora.com/Can-cats-see-IR https://www.quora.com/Can-cats-see-IR
personlurking 10y ago
There's an April 2016 BuzzFeed video [1m30s] with facts about this cat. You might want to mute it (electronic music overlay). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpakZ0fHzck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpakZ0fHzck
- dharma1 10y ago
  Awesome. Looks like something out of a Studio Ghibli film. Wonder if the round pupils mean it is less of a night hunter Edit: the answer - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full
xarope 10y ago
2 years ago I found out about sand cats (google them, the ears are amazing). But these Pallas cats are positively prehistoric looking!
haversine02 10y ago
Pallas cats are one of my favourite animals. I've had the luck of seeing a very vocal and grumpy one in person. They also have a very unique low meow, which also sounds like they're constantly pissed off: http://www.bioacoustica.org/gallery/sounds/Felis_manul1.wav http://www.bioacoustica.org/gallery/sounds/Felis_manul1.wav https://youtu.be/DKmBt9sA9hk https://youtu.be/DKmBt9sA9hk
- arethuza 10y ago
  Sounds like one of our pair of Burmese cats - same cat can do a remarkably good impersonation of a young child saying "mum".
  - lostlogin 10y ago
    Pair? You're brave. We had one and it was both noisy and destructive.
- dominotw 10y ago
  That cat looks like its actually pissed off.
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rwmj 10y ago
Hunted for their pelts. Don't buy real fur coats.
dahjelle 10y ago
If you are ever near Fargo, ND, the Red River Zoo[1] has 3 that you can come see in person! :-) [1] http://redriverzoo.org/animals/pallas-cat/ http://redriverzoo.org/animals/pallas-cat/

82 points by pshaw 10y ago

homero 10y ago

Cats can see infrared

serf 10y ago
Not really.[0] I didn't know this off the top of my head or anything, the cats' eyes in the video reflecting the IR back at the camera prompted my searching for the answer. [0]: https://www.quora.com/Can-cats-see-IR https://www.quora.com/Can-cats-see-IR

personlurking 10y ago

There's an April 2016 BuzzFeed video [1m30s] with facts about this cat. You might want to mute it (electronic music overlay). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpakZ0fHzck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpakZ0fHzck

dharma1 10y ago
Awesome. Looks like something out of a Studio Ghibli film. Wonder if the round pupils mean it is less of a night hunter Edit: the answer - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full

xarope 10y ago

2 years ago I found out about sand cats (google them, the ears are amazing). But these Pallas cats are positively prehistoric looking!

haversine02 10y ago

Pallas cats are one of my favourite animals. I've had the luck of seeing a very vocal and grumpy one in person. They also have a very unique low meow, which also sounds like they're constantly pissed off: http://www.bioacoustica.org/gallery/sounds/Felis_manul1.wav http://www.bioacoustica.org/gallery/sounds/Felis_manul1.wav https://youtu.be/DKmBt9sA9hk https://youtu.be/DKmBt9sA9hk

arethuza 10y ago
Sounds like one of our pair of Burmese cats - same cat can do a remarkably good impersonation of a young child saying "mum".
- lostlogin 10y ago
  Pair? You're brave. We had one and it was both noisy and destructive.
dominotw 10y ago
That cat looks like its actually pissed off.

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rwmj 10y ago

Hunted for their pelts. Don't buy real fur coats.

dahjelle 10y ago

If you are ever near Fargo, ND, the Red River Zoo[1] has 3 that you can come see in person! :-) [1] http://redriverzoo.org/animals/pallas-cat/ http://redriverzoo.org/animals/pallas-cat/