Scientists tag female leopard cat with satellite collar to track movements

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KOTA KINABALU: Scientists have tagged a wild female leopard cat with a satellite collar during a night survey in Kinabatangan in hopes of better understanding the species.

The tagging was part of the Danau Girang Field Centre's Carnivore Programme, carried out in collaboration with the Sabah Wildlife Department .

He said leopard cats, and the potential for disease transmission between it and domestic animals, provided a relevant model to evaluate the potential health risks threatening other species, such as flat-headed cats and marbled cats. "We hope to study their movements through this fragmented landscape, and to understand how such a resilient species utilises both landscapes - forest and oil palm plantation - to survive," she said.The Carnivore Programme is in tandem with DGFC's Health at the Edge Project , led by Dr Sergio Guerrero-Sanchez and Dr Liesbeth Frias, who are both research associates at DGFC.

"For this particular component of the project, we are targeting leopard cats as sentinels to assess the potential effects of anthropogenic disturbance on the health of Bornean cat populations," he said.

 

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