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Pallas’s cat in Himachal Pradesh

January 7 , 2025 13 hrs 0 min 100 0
  • The first photographic evidence of the elusive Pallas’s cat has been found in Himachal Pradesh, India.
  • Pallas's cats are small wild felids that are the main inhabitants of the steppes of the Central Asia.
  • It is named after a German naturalist named Peter Simon Pallas, who first described it in 1776.
  • It lives mainly as a solitary cat and nocturnal one.
  • It is lister as ‘’Near Threatened’’ by IUCN.

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