New Sundaland Leopard Species Seen On Video For First Time

Video footage of a big cat species caught on camera in the wild in Borneo has been made public for the first time. Scientists came across the Sundaland clouded leopard while working in the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Malaysia. The elusive species, discovered to be a distinct type of big cat only two years ago, is one of the least known in the world. It is thought to have been filmed once before by a tourist, although the footage has never been released. The team, which included Andreas Wilting of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin and the Malaysian field scientist Azlan Mohamed, published its findings in the latest issue of Cat News, the newsletter of the Cat Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).