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Pallas’s Cats Born at Wildlife Park in Scotland

Although they are a fairly common species in zoos, very little is known about the Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) in the wild.

David Barclay, one of the senior keepers at the Highland Wildlife Park, manages the European breeding programme for Pallas’s cat and maintains the International Studbook which records all captive Pallas’s cats anywhere in the world. Although only classed as Near Threatened, one of the low risk threat categories, we have seen how the status of a species that was long considered common can become highly threatened in a very short period of time…

(read more: Highland Wildlife Park - Youtube)