Pizza Slow, skunkbear: Here’s an Otocolobus manul — nature’s Grumpy Cat — discovering a camera trap outside it’s den. Camera traps are used by biologists to lean about rare animals’ behavior, abundance, and health — just by setting up a solar-powered camera with a motion trigger. No physical trapping necessary. O. manul (also known as Pallas’s cat) is about the size of a house cat, but you’ll notice has round pupils instead of slits. It lives in western China and the steppes of Central Asia. You’d think that Pallas’s cat would rule the internet by now - but there aren’t too many photos of them because they are both rare and shy. The IUCN lists them as near-threatened. Just another reason to support species conservation! You can see the whole video — posted Scarce Worldwide

Figure 1. mirrored image from https://66.media.tumblr.com/3b7f72ac46b8ea1c61e6efdd22c3a198/tumblr_n85bixmkxt1t5fphqo1_500.gif without alt text, sorry.

Here’s an Otocolobus manul — nature’s Grumpy Cat — discovering a camera trap outside it’s den. Camera traps are used by biologists to lean about rare animals’ behavior, abundance, and health — just by setting up a solar-powered camera with a motion trigger. No physical trapping necessary.

O. manul (also known as Pallas’s cat) is about the size of a house cat, but you’ll notice has round pupils instead of slits. It lives in western China and the steppes of Central Asia.

You’d think that Pallas’s cat would rule the internet by now - but there aren’t too many photos of them because they are both rare and shy. The IUCN lists them as near-threatened. Just another reason to support species conservation!

You can see the whole video — posted Scarce Worldwide — here.

July 4th, 2014 10:41am

Posted on Tumblr over 12 years ago and archived here at /tumblr/2014/07/04/manul/ in the Tumblr collection.

Proximate posts in the Tumblr collection
newer	Why do I always get a warped one?!? Alt: …damned thing run Linux, etc. on Flickr.	06 July 2014
this post	skunkbear: Here’s an Otocolobus manul — nature’s Grumpy Cat — discovering a camera trap outside it’s den. Camera traps are used by biologists to lean about rare animals’ behavior, abundance, and health — just by setting up a solar-powered camera with a motion trigger. No physical trapping necessary. O. manul (also known as Pallas’s cat) is about the size of a house cat, but you’ll notice has round pupils instead of slits. It lives in western China and the steppes of Central Asia. You’d think that Pallas’s cat would rule the internet by now - but there aren’t too many photos of them because they are both rare and shy. The IUCN lists them as near-threatened. Just another reason to support species conservation! You can see the whole video — posted Scarce Worldwide — here.	04 July 2014
older	Post #90615863793	03 July 2014

Proximate posts in the General collection
newer	Twitter post from July 5, 2014, 485540483947458560	05 July 2014
this post	skunkbear: Here’s an Otocolobus manul — nature’s Grumpy Cat — discovering a camera trap outside it’s den. Camera traps are used by biologists to lean about rare animals’ behavior, abundance, and health — just by setting up a solar-powered camera with a motion trigger. No physical trapping necessary. O. manul (also known as Pallas’s cat) is about the size of a house cat, but you’ll notice has round pupils instead of slits. It lives in western China and the steppes of Central Asia. You’d think that Pallas’s cat would rule the internet by now - but there aren’t too many photos of them because they are both rare and shy. The IUCN lists them as near-threatened. Just another reason to support species conservation! You can see the whole video — posted Scarce Worldwide — here.	04 July 2014
older	Twitter post from July 3, 2014, 484826077835952128	03 July 2014