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| Sunderland-Groves, J.; Rahman, D.A.; Kurniawan, D.; Prasetyo, E.; Sihite, J.; Sun, C.; Burton, C. | |
| The first photographic record of a Borneo bay cat pair of both colouration forms | |
| 2024 Cat News (79): 16-17 | |
The Endangered Borneo bay cat _Catopuma badia_ (hereafter bay cat) is one of the rarest and least known of all the small cats; however, recent studies using camera traps are increasingly contributing to our knowledge of bay cat distribution. During a three-year camera trap study in the Bukit Batikap Protection Forest (Batikap) located in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, images of this highly elusive species were captured on five separate occasions, the second of which captured images of a bay cat pair that appeared to consist of both known colouration phases, the reddish-bay form and the light or dark grey, of which the latter is thought to be rarer. To our knowledge, this is the first photographic record of a bay cat pair of both colouration morphs in the wild and the first photographic record of bay cat in Batikap. |
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