NEWS

June 25, 2009
Program news: the first stage of the work in Kazakhstan
June 1st to 21st, 2009, some areas of East Kazakhstan and Almatin Regions of the Kazakhstan Republic were inspected in order to collect data about the Pallas' Cat.
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June 23, 2009
Primorski Krai: the sellers had to pay for the mittens made of manul
The resolution was passed on the case of a Vladivostok store selling the mittens made of manul's fur. It was admitted to be an administrative infringement. Penalty was inflicted.
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April 30, 2009
Program news: Pallas' cat study in Kazakhstan begins
The project "Clarifying Pallas' Cat conservation status in Kazakhstan" was supported by the Rufford Small Grants Foundation.
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April 13, 2009
Altai Republic: here comes Manul, the wild cat
In the Kosh-Agach region of the Altai Republic the results of the contest 'Manul the rare steppe cat' were announced. This was the contest of the ecological projects and drawings announced by the Siberian Environmental Center in February 2009. More than 70 works were received.
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April 10, 2009
Primorski Krai: mittens from manul's fur were confiscated
Citizens of the Vladivostok city repeatedly reported that the store named "Expedition" was selling mittens made of manul's fur. Raid to the store resulted in the administrative case opened against its owner.
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RECENT ARTICLES

First Pallas’s Cat Photo-trapped in Khojir National Park, Iran
Mehdi Chalani, Arash Ghoddousi, Taher Ghadirian and Reza Goljani
As part of a camera-trapping survey for the identification of felid species in Khojir National Park, Iran, a manul or Pallas’s cat Otocolobus manul was photographed on 6 February 2008 for the first time. There being only a few reports of this secretive cat in Iran, this new locality is very interesting with regard to its national range. 86 kb
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First Record of Pallas’s Cat in Northwest Iran
Ali Aghili, Reza Masoud, James D. Murdoch and David P. Mallon
We report a recent record of a Pallas’s cat captured in the Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran. To our knowledge, the capture represents the first record of the species in northwest Iran and the first documented occurrence of the erythristic (reddish) form of the species anywhere in Iran. 305 kb
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Pallas cat.. (from "Mammals of Mongolia")
A. G. Bannikov
ANNOTATION
This is a classic article of last century about Pallas's cat in Mongolia, its exterior, distribution, and harvest there.
(full text is available in Russian) 184 kb
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Seasonal Fluctuations of the Behavioral Activity, Nutritional Requirements, and Weight of Pallas' Cats (2006)
T.S. Demina
The author of this article has done observation for Pallas' cat in the Breeding Station of the Moscow Zoo for five years. Middle-Asian Pallas' cats (F. (Otocolobus) manul ferrugineus) have been kept in the Moscow Zoo since 1997.
Pallas' cats are placed in cages. The cages look like a block of a two opposite aviaries, connected to each other by a shared corridor. 79 kb
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