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New species of Big Cat discovered - on Indonesian islands

The feline species known as the rare clouded leopard on the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra turns out to be a separate species to that of its Asian mainland cousin. Photos.

Full article at Independent

Check out the photos at Metro (1 photo) and BBC (3 photos)

According to radio transcript from ABC reports its new common name as "Thunder clouded leopard" in an interview with Stephen O'Brien - head of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the US National Cancer Institute who carried out the DNA work.

Image from Wikipedia:

Clouded Leopard

Posted by: admin on 14th Mar 2007 08:50 PM
Updated by: admin on 15th Mar 2007 08:17 PM
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