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| Wang, S.W. | |
| A rare morph of the Asiatic golden cat Bhutan's Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park | |
| 2007 Cat News (47): 27-28 | |
An intensive camera trapping exercise targeted at tiger and leopard has for the first time captured several photos of the Asiatic golden cat _Catapuma temmincki _from two locations in the high altitude mountain forests of Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park in Bhutan. Both the normal and the ocelot morph have been captured by cameras. This is not only the first record for the existence of these cats on high altitudes in Bhutan, but for the ocelot morph it is perhaps the only photo from the wild. The only available physical evidence of this morph was so far available from a zoo in China (Nowell & Jackson 1996). |
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