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WildCRU student collaborator’s Golden Cat article in Africa Geographic

WildCRU collaborator and Kaplan Scholar, Laila Bahaa-el-din, writes about her PhD study on golden cats in in Africa Geographic.

“Of the African cats, the one you’re least likely to have heard of is the African golden cat. It lives in the rainforests along the Equator, is very shy, and successfully avoids people – that is, until it falls into a hunter’s snare. Imagine a stocky caracal, but without the pointy, tufted ears. It weighs 10 kg on average and, despite the “golden” moniker, it varies in colour from red to grey, and sometimes black. It generally has markings on its underbelly and the inside of its limbs, but they sometimes extend across the whole body. Of its behaviour and breeding biology in the wild, we know almost nothing.”

Read the full article here: http://magazine.africageographic.com/weekly/issue-41/african-golden-cat-gabon/.