New Leopard Species
 

According to this news source from Yahoo!, a new species of Leopards where found in Borneo in Southeast Asia.

If your curious, here's the link to learn more:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/...louded_leopard

Well, that's all I have.

awwww, purdy:D

What a lovely pussy-cat! It's amazing this animal's eluded humankind for so long. Well mankind with cameras, books and latin names anyway. Maybe we should all agree as a species to not go all tramping all over Borneo and bugger it up with it a thriving tourist economy like everywhere else. Too much of it has already been cleared for agricultural palm production. I don't begrudge anyone a living but it'd be nice to have some genuinly wild places left. Some jerk even suggested monorails on the Galapogas for chrissakes.

What makes these cats unique is that they aren't related to real leopards at all, but are the only two surviving relatives of the Saber-Toothed Cat(Smilodon). Even though these cats are only about the size of a Springer Spaniel, their canine teeth are as long as a full-grown lion's! I brought these up on a Lilo and Stitch forum once, when asked if there was any mammal on Earth that could hang upside down from a relatively flat surface and walk around, like Stitch does. These cats can do just that, having not only retractable claws, but gripping pads on their paws, and their wrist and ankle joints can rotate completely backwards, allowing them to decend a tree or wall head-first, something no other mammal can do, something usually associated with lizards, like geckos. They can also dangle upside down from one hind foot underneath a branch to drop down onto prey. Pretty darn neat kitty cats! I'd love to be able to pet one, just once, since their coats look almost painted on! Knowing me, I'd be highly allergic to them, though, like I am to true big cats.

pitbulllady

Really? Sweet! Whats the other one?

YES! Another feather in the cap of Sasquatch and Nessie believers!:D And it never hurts to have more cats.;)

omg they are so beautifull<3

once again another prof that we don't know what this world fully holds

They are the two different species of Clouded Leopard. The one just "discovered" was actually known about for decades, but it was just recently found to be a totally different species from the mainland cats.

pitbulllady

I Heard it on the news at the morning at 7am

Yes, sasquatch but nessie no. I used to believe in nessie but not anymore it seems impossible, in the the ocean it does. But Loch Ness no.

This is cool, but other leopards are still endangered. :'(