MSNBC: Elusive cat caught on camera in Himalayas for first time
Photo from WWFAn elusive thick-furred feline has been caught on camera for the first time in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
A camera trap captured images of the fluffy Pallas’s cat, also known as the manul, in the country’s sprawling Wangchuck Centennial Park (WCP), which is also home to the snow leopard and Himalayan black bear. Pallas’s cats had never been documented in the region before, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
“This is an exciting and remarkable discovery that proves that the Pallas’s cat exists in the Eastern Himalayas,” Rinjan Shrestha, a conservation scientist with WWF, said in a statement. “This probably indicates a relatively undisturbed habitat, which gives us hope, not only for the Pallas’s cat, but also the snow leopard, Tibetan wolf and other threatened species that inhabit the region.”
The cat is a primitive species that has evolved little in the past 5 million years. It’s about the size of a house cat and slightly resembles a Persian cat with its flat face, high-set eyes and thick coat, which keeps it warm at high altitudes. The Pallas’s cat’s distinct gray fur with dark spots on its head also helps it blend in with mountainous habitats across Central Asia.
Bhutan’s park service and a WWF team surveying snow leopards in the region set up the camera traps, which first snapped a photo of a manul in January, then in February and April. In one shot, the cat appears to be sneaking right up to camera in for a close-up, staring right into the lens from the bottom-right corner of the frame.
Tags: Bhutan, Himalayas, Open thread, Pallas' Cat
Speaking of Bhutan, I need to go out & get some more to refill my grill lighter.
Wonderful cat!
Screw the WWF.
Bumr50 wrote:
Indeed. I don’t care much for that wrestling crap, either.
@ MacDuff:
See, it works both ways!!
“Whangchuck Centennial Park”
Where Chuck first got Whanged.
Peacefully grant the State of Louisiana to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.
ht drudge
Expect much more of this.
Well now, the documentation of the extended range of that cat species is just downright interesting.
Why should these bastards get any pension?
Requiem for the Mainstream Media, All hail the New Media.
@ doriangrey:
The mainstream media proved that it is still alive and well in this last election. Make no mistake, the MFM won this one. Don’t expect Obama to become any more press friendly,though. I’d say full court press conferences won’t be very common over the next four years. And the press will be fine with that.
waldensianspirit wrote:
I’m sure this is just to make a point, but Louisiana is just barely functioning under the umbrella of the United States. I’m certainly not singling out Louisiana (one of my favorite places), I think most states are in the same situation.
@ The Osprey:
When I read that, I first thought it read, “Wang Chung Centennial Park.”
Iron Fist wrote:
I disagree, the Fifth Column Treasonous Media are the walking dead, zombies as it were.
doriangrey wrote:
Na they’re just due for a bailout
Mooch will easily win 2016 and 2020
final tally including Fla…
BO 332
MR 206
I’m not falling for it, refuse to believe this was a fair election
no fucking way
Gallup: 2012 election had the largest gender gap in recorded history
Some of you got blinders on and are looking everywhere for reasons you can fix by 2016.
@ Canoe Convoy:
/kidding!
@ waldensianspirit:
We are firmly in the minority.
Budget experts say that no matter what Congress and President Obama decide to do about the fiscal cliff this winter, the national debt will keep rising and the U.S. government will soon hit its borrowing limit. So, even if there’s no fiscal cliff deal — and taxes go up, spending gets cut — House Republicans will still have to agree to raise the debt ceiling.
Their ‘deal’ making is just a distraction.
They will introduce a world wide government solution after they make Americans completely scared and panicky
Bumr50 wrote:
Josey Waaaales!!!
We all know Alec Baldwin is an ass.
Unfortunately, this tweet sums up why many Americans voted for Barack Obama.
And this anti-white Christian male sentiment has been fully realized in this election at the expense of REASON and SANITY.
@ 17 heysoos: That is like a two state swing isn’t it?
Bumr50 wrote:
Election theft.
I’m not doing too well at the moment. Was in the ER yesterday on account of pre-syncope, bradycardia, and ongoing weakness/sweating and chest pain.
Said no evidence of recent MI or clot, but that I really need a stress test.
That’ll have to wait until I have the wherewithal to pay for it.
Meantime my husband’s high BP is still a major issue, still unresolved.
darkwords wrote:
way more…I refuse to believe it
@ 1389AD:
Prayers for you and yours.
@ Guggi: I’d say he had political enemies who had access to his email before the complaint was made. The complaint is to hide.
That being said, the fact that Petraeus views burning the Koran as a danger to the world, and is ok with Benghzai means what? He essentially is loyal to the chief. He has a personal integrity that is ok with sleeping around and like Obama does not feel the need to have the buck stop on his desk regarding Benghazi. The big game and all that you know.
@ heysoos:
Dr. Paul Kengor thinks it was turnout.
I respect his opinion, but don’t rule out MASSIVE fraud.
But that was a foregone conclusion.
@ 23 Bumr50: The locust plague resulting from the Obama election is probably going to drive more people to church or to crime. If they were O supporters they will probably resort to crime. The Romney supporters will pick a church.
@ 1389AD:
BTW -- the blog looks awesome.
Congrats!
In hindsight the GoP effort almost seems more amateurish than McCain. Obama was better prepared to win. He worked every angle, every vote. The Romney camp was made to feel afraid to run negative while Obama did that very thing through surrogates. Romney needed a visceral “Paint the right picture” through process that would be reflected in ads. Romney was missing a small government message and missing a strong individual liberty through group stength message.
He could have explained Help as 1. Help yourself first. 2. Then your family helps you. 3. Then a good group of people help you. 4. Then the government helps you. If you are 1,2,3 vote for me, if you are 4 only then vote for Obama.
And again there is a large set of the population that only responds to conspiracy and rumor.
@ darkwords:
Romney had no message.
“Not Obama” lost.
Faith in my fellow Americans.
I saw this local piece this morning before it was updated, and it broke my a heart a bit.
@ Bumr50:
Thanks!
@ waldensianspirit:
WhiteHouse.gov account required. Fuck that!
Bumr50 wrote:
He had a message, all right -- it was “Badmouth every other GOP candidate in the primaries.”
The problem with going along with tax increases in exchange for promises of lower spending is that the lower spending never materializes. SO: Let’s go along with a 1 year, 1% (and I don’t mean from 38% to 39%) increase in taxes on those earning at least 2 million after $100 billion has been cut from the spending side.
It’s GOT to be short term tax increases coupled with real spending cuts, not merely cuts in the rate of growth of spending.
Bumr50 wrote:
not sure what message Romney needed to put forth…BO’s record was the message and if that was not clear enough then what’s the use of even having a conservative party?…something is very fishy with this whole gig…if conservative voted in great numbers and got this badly trounced, then fraud is the explanation…but if BO won because conservatives didn’t vote, then those people are as stupid as BO supporters…really sucks both ways
you hand a guy a paint chip and ask what color it is…if he says blue, your fucked….ask another voter what color it is and he replies, who cares, your fucked again….it’s not about any message, it’s more about herding sheep
In my work office there was a definite get out the vote effort on the day of the election. We were in a meeting where gay marriage and a woman’s right to choose came up. And the manager who brought up the right to choose made a point of asking people to make sure they and their loved ones voted today. And the 12 people around the table all confirmed that they had voted or were going to. This is an Obama office where if you were to wear conservative politics on your sleeve you’ll get a good talking to via cubicle invasion. Part of a larger company of 20,000 or so employees.
I don’t really think the manager brought it up as a coincidence. I think it was bought up because the astroturf grapevine asked people to do everything they possible can to ensure an Obama victory.
@ 40 heysoos: The numbers don’t add up to me either. I would hope an audit of some of these close election would reveal any shenanigans.
@ 38 1389AD: Well sununu was on TV often and being asked why Romney wasn’t getting a message out there. He said just wait we have it all planned out. I had already voted by the time I saw an ad from Romney. He had no chance to persuade me if I was against him.
@ mfhorn:
You’re dreaming if you think Obama will actually cut spending. No President since Reaghan has really cut spending. Make no mistake: Obama wants the collapse that is coming. He considers it only fair that America be destroyed. He’ll then jet off to The Caymans or Aruba or wherever. There’s no doubt that he skimmed enough from the “stimulus” to live like a king for the rest of his life.
darkwords wrote:
If it is true that he committed adultery as Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) then he is in deep sh*t. The rules for flag officers don’t end with the retirement and he still could be punished for adultery. He is forced to be loyal to the president otherwise he could lose his rank and part of his pension.
How obesessed must he have been that he wrote “thousends of emails” wihtin a year or so. This is at least 6+ emails a day. O. must have known since months what was going on when it is true that the FBI started investigating his mistress in spring 2012 only to discover that he had written so many emails to her. Imho he was forced to play with the game and call Benghazi “an out of controll demonstration because of an ant-Muslim video” discrediting his former statement that it was an act of terror.
He was blackmailed by the government and its highest representative and he can’t escape and he will not cooperate with the Congress and he will be loyal to the blackmailer because he has no choice.
He did a poorly job.
@ 45 Iron Fist: I think Obama will go to Abu Dhabi Michelle can shop while he engages his anti Israel friends in comfort.
Btw.: to call adultery lasting at least for months and thousands of emails “poor judgement” is a joke. A one night stand is “poor judgement” not what he did.
@ Iron Fist:
Oh, I don’t think for a second that Obama would cut spending, any more than he’d serve a ham sandwich to representatives from the Muslim Brotherhood.
That would, though, be the only way I think Republicans should go along with these tax increases on the rich- those people the left loves to portray as greedy, evil, selfish and every other stereotype in the book.
And I want to know, too how ‘millionaires & billionaires’ can include those making $250,000 as a couple, or $200,000 as an individual.
@ Guggi:
One reason adultry is so frowned on in the military is that it sets the adulterer up for blackmail. This clearly happened in Peeus’ case. As has been noted, there is no way the CIA didn’t know about this affair, and thus no way that Obama didn’t know about it when he appointed him. Obama was no doubt holding it as a surety against “bad” behavior on the part of Petraeus, i.e. him doing anything against Obama’s interests, not the interests of the United States. Petraeus won’t testify to Congress, not even if subpeonaed. Why should he? Holder proved that a contempt of congress charge is a paper tiger if you do t in the interests of the Obama Administration.
mfhorn wrote:
Don’t forget that who they are really trying to hit with that are small businesses that file as individuals. That’d be a large segment of the economy. That’ll mean layoffs and an even slower job market. Nevertheless, I think the Republicans should wash their hands of the situation. The people voted, and they chose Obama. Give them all the Obama they can stand. It won’t save the country, but the country is beyond salvage.
Worth reading:
@ darkwords:
I think there’ll be a nuclear exchange between Israel and Iran before the next four years are out. Israel is a lifeboat adrift in a sea of enemies. She can’t stop the Iranians from getting atomic weapons, and Obama wants Iran to get atomic weapons. It is only a matter of time before they accomplish this.
@ 50 Iron Fist: Yep it does sound like he was successfully blackmailed.
@ Iron Fist:
Oh, sure. The fewer people who are succeeding without government assistance, the worse off we are, according to the left.
Mixed feelings on how Republicans should react to this. Maybe if all conservatives in Congress just refused to vote, we could pin the upcoming fiscal collapse of America on liberalism. Voting with the left would tie us to the failure, and voting against it will just give the left an excuse to blame the right when things collapse.
@ 51 Iron Fist:
Obama’s whole MO is to push people into misery and blame it on Bill Gates. And he manipulates the miserable souls to their face before he yanks their rugs away.
Mark Steyn on what happens next:
We are, in a word, doomed. As Instapundit is fond of saying, something that can’t go on forever won’t. This has to all come to a head sometime. We have a larger debt to GDP rati right now than Weimar Germany. We all remember how successful that turned out to be. There is no helping it.
This is by design. Obama doesn’t want America to grow and thrive. He wants America to collapse and die. He will get his wish. The voters have chosen that future.
waldensianspirit wrote:
i saw this at work with the RN’s i work with. they QUOTED that idiot senate candidate to me! LEGITIMATE RAPE
WHAT THE $*^&??????????????????????????????????????????????????
it is reality and the gop is too damned stoopid to see it. gop gets suckered into the abortion/women’s issues every damn time. how’d that work out for us this time? utter destruction.
@ Iron Fist:
good, collapse it.
lets get it over with.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m ready…been ready for 30-40 years
@ coldwarrior:
I think that is coming. 2016 is too late. We’ll be $21 trillion in debt by then if we make it until then. We can’t ever hope to pay that off. And all it’ll take is a little fluctuation in the interest rates to throw us into default. They don’t have to go up much. Just interest on the debt will be a huge line-item in our budget (if we even have a budget then). We’re screwed. I don’t see any good ending for this. I am just worried about getting my family ready to weather the collapse.
National Geographic Channel has this show Doomsday Preppers. It’s pretty much done so people can laugh at them, though the more time goes by, the smarter the preppers start to look like.
Iron Fist wrote:
too much can happen between now and then to predict…I have kids and now grand kids myself but it’s folly to say what’s going to happen…wait and see
The ‘Hope-a-nomics’ disaster: one company’s horror story
just waiting for the uproar when BO signs an EO to bail out the CA and Ill unions…that’s when the shit will really hit the fan
1389AD wrote:
I’m so sorry to hear that your medical problems have flared up. Prayers for you and your husband. I would think that you are more stressed than usual because of his health problems. Yet, here you are posting for Caturday. Thank you for that.
yenta-fada wrote:
Actually, I had the Caturday post up ahead of time. But thanks!