Hello Greenzoners!
Few days ago we wrote about recent encounter with the world’s rarest whale. Well, there is no end to great discoveries – especially if it comes to rare animals!
The Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) is one of the rarest cats known – it lives across Amazon and Andes area and is the smallest cat in South America. Very little is known about their lives and their history, which made them some kind of a mystery among the people. Recently, Wildlife Conservation Society researchers, Guido Ayala, Maria Viscarra, and Robert Wallace managed to take the first photo of a mentioned extremely rare cat.
The picture they submitted won BBC Wildlife camera-trap photo competition, as it is the first proof of Oncilla’s existence. 🙂
More about Oncilla here http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121129111746.htm
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oh… nice pic I love it……. and new information to me …… thnx
“first proof of Oncilla’s existence.”
Lol… Where then Wikipedia took photos of this animal for the section of it?