Scientists got unique shots of a manul, a small wild cat, via photo-traps in the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve. Manuls are listed in the Russian Red Data... 30.03.2012, Sputnik International
Scientists got unique shots of a manul, a small wild cat, via photo-traps in the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve. Manuls are listed in the Russian Red Data Book and IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Scientists note that in the last decades the number of manuls in Russia has fallen, mainly due to hunting, trapping and declining food resource.
Scientists got unique shots of a manul, a small wild cat, via photo-traps in the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve. Manuls are listed in the Russian Red Data Book and IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Scientists note that in the last decades the number of manuls in Russia has fallen, mainly due to hunting, trapping and declining food resource.
Scientists got unique shots of a manul, a small wild cat, via photo-traps in the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve. Manuls are listed in the Russian Red Data Book and IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Scientists note that in the last decades the number of manuls in Russia has fallen, mainly due to hunting, trapping and declining food resource.
The Russian Red Data Book says that manuls live at the Altay Territory, Tyva Republic, the Republic of Buryatia and Transbaikal Territory. Their habitat in the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve is open to debate.
Scientists cited the wild cats’ rare visits from the adjacent areas to the Sayano-Shushensky Nature Reserve and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in general, as the only option for the cats’ presence in that territory.
Manuls are also called Pallas’s Cats. The species were named after the German naturalist, Peter Simon Pallas, who first described them near the Caspian Sea coast in 1776.
There is a hypothesis that manuls are related to Persian cats, which have quite similar forms of heads not usually found in other cat breeds. Manuls weigh about five kilograms. Their legs are shorter and thicker than those of domestic cats.
It was earlier reported that game wardens at the Daurksy Nature Reserve put radio collars on four manuls. Photo: A manul cub at the Daurksy Nature Reserve.
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