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New Leopard Species Found in Borneo
In this undated photo released by the global conservation group WWF, known as the World Wildlife Fund and the World Wide Fund for Nature, a clouded leopard discovered by WWF member inside the Borneo rainforest, East of Malaysia, is shown. The clouded leopard of Borneo, discovered to be an entirely new species, is the latest in a growing list of animals and plants unique to the Southeast Asian country's rainforest and underscores the need to preserve the area, conservationists said Thursday, March 15, 2007. (AP Photo/WWF, Alain Compost, HO)
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bbc news article on the same topic also includes some pictures of the lovely panthers.
#1 - Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:23 PM EDTwhat a cool looking cat. It's fur pattern almost looks like snake skin.
#2 - Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:43 AM EDTSTEPHEN O'BRIEN: This particular species of clouded leopard, it turned out, gave us some very interesting genetic differences, differences that, when they were measured using the tools of evolutionary genetics, said that they had probably represented a sizeable difference between two separate populations.
From the ABC interview with one of the researchers.
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