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National Geographic magazine: Out of the Shadows, the Wildcats You've Never Seen (EN)

26/01/2017

 

 

Elusive, obscure, and eclipsed in popularity by their larger cousins, small cats are amazing, high-performance predators.

“She’s very close,” Germán Garrote whispers, pointing to a handheld receiver picking up Helena’s signal. Somewhere in this olive grove beside a busy highway in southern Spain, the Iberian lynx and her two cubs are probably watching us. If it weren’t for her radio collar, we’d never know that one of the world’s rarest cats is crouching among the neat rows of trees. At five years old Helena has learned to meld invisibly into the human landscape, even hiding with her newborns in a vacant house during a raucous Holy Week fiesta...

Complete article: www.nationalgeographic.com



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