Researchers provide the first findings of sand cats living in the desert, and the results (Video/Photo) are surprising

They've spent the last four years tracking and documenting Africa's elusive sand cats, but it was in the middle of the night on the last night of their expedition when researchers made a surprising discovery. In what is supposed to be the first wildlife movie to live [...]
In what is thought to be the first film of feral cats living in the sand, researchers have recorded three small cats in their gamma range, each estimated to be just six to eight weeks old at the time they were stained, reports “Daily Mail”, the Periscope broadcast.


These cats are known for their remarkable ability to avoid detection, traveling under the cover of darkness and never leaving behind their murderous tracks.
The team, led by biologists Dr. Alexander Sliwa & Grégory Breton observed three pairs with bright eyes in the dark as they returned to the camp on April 26th.
The location was approximately four miles [4 km] from their camp in the Maroquene Sahara, but after discovering rare kittens at 1:48, researchers spent the next hour catching some of the photos and engineerings through videos where they are seen setting traps to fix their tracks.




“This is probably the first sand cats poll in the Sahara”, the team says.
Three kittens were found hiding under a flock of multiyear-old grass.
Jerboa is a small dancer rodent and one of the main shells of North African feral cats, according to researchers.
“The finding of sand cats (Felis margarita) in their natural range (northern Africa, all over the Middle East and southwest and Central Asia) is difficult”, Bretton, director of Panthera France wrote in a post on his blog.
“They barely leave any visible viewpoint, they don't leave their remains behind, and their vocal is quiet”, he said.
“They move secretly at dusk, at night and at dawn, they are good at hiding, and their wool offers perfect mask when they want to disappear from observers and threats”, he added. But they don't run away.
“Although we expressly highlight in our video that sand cats are a wild species adapted to desert conditions and dry time and should not be kept or combined (to make a hybridisation with domestic cats, something that unfortunately started before our work on the ground) to express the desire to catch or to take one to keep them at home”, researchers said, as images received an unexpected and overloaded response in the space of just two weeks.
But they're against this approach to the fact that a species of cats that have a small number worldwide can be destroyed./Periscopi/












