Rare Footage of Pallas’s Cat Cubs in Mongolia’s Zoolon Mountains (voices.nationalgeographic.com) 82 points by pshaw 9y ago ↗ HN
[–] homero 9y ago ↗ Cats can see infrared [–] serf 9y ago ↗ Not really.[0]I didn't know this off the top of my head or anything, the cats' eyes in the video reflecting the IR back at the camera prompted my searching for the answer.[0]: https://www.quora.com/Can-cats-see-IR
[–] serf 9y ago ↗ Not really.[0]I didn't know this off the top of my head or anything, the cats' eyes in the video reflecting the IR back at the camera prompted my searching for the answer.[0]: https://www.quora.com/Can-cats-see-IR
[–] personlurking 9y ago ↗ There's an April 2016 BuzzFeed video [1m30s] with facts about this cat. You might want to mute it (electronic music overlay).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpakZ0fHzck [–] dharma1 9y ago ↗ Awesome. Looks like something out of a Studio Ghibli film. Wonder if the round pupils mean it is less of a night hunterEdit: the answer - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full
[–] dharma1 9y ago ↗ Awesome. Looks like something out of a Studio Ghibli film. Wonder if the round pupils mean it is less of a night hunterEdit: the answer - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full
[–] xarope 9y ago ↗ 2 years ago I found out about sand cats (google them, the ears are amazing). But these Pallas cats are positively prehistoric looking!
[–] haversine02 9y ago ↗ Pallas cats are one of my favourite animals. I've had the luck of seeing a very vocal and grumpy one in person. They also have a very unique low meow, which also sounds like they're constantly pissed off: http://www.bioacoustica.org/gallery/sounds/Felis_manul1.wav https://youtu.be/DKmBt9sA9hk [–] arethuza 9y ago ↗ Sounds like one of our pair of Burmese cats - same cat can do a remarkably good impersonation of a young child saying "mum". [–] lostlogin 9y ago ↗ Pair? You're brave. We had one and it was both noisy and destructive. [–] dominotw 9y ago ↗ That cat looks like its actually pissed off.
[–] arethuza 9y ago ↗ Sounds like one of our pair of Burmese cats - same cat can do a remarkably good impersonation of a young child saying "mum". [–] lostlogin 9y ago ↗ Pair? You're brave. We had one and it was both noisy and destructive.
[–] dahjelle 9y ago ↗ If you are ever near Fargo, ND, the Red River Zoo[1] has 3 that you can come see in person! :-)[1] http://redriverzoo.org/animals/pallas-cat/
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 36.0 ms ] threadI didn't know this off the top of my head or anything, the cats' eyes in the video reflecting the IR back at the camera prompted my searching for the answer.
[0]: https://www.quora.com/Can-cats-see-IR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpakZ0fHzck
Edit: the answer - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391.full
[1] http://redriverzoo.org/animals/pallas-cat/