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Sunda Clouded Leopard
Neofelis diardi
The Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) was only recognised as a distinct species in 2006 and 2007, when genetic and morphological work showed that the clouded leopards of Borneo and Sumatra had been separated from mainland populations for more than a million years, with dif…
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- The Sunda Clouded Leopard was only recognized as a separate species from the mainland clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) in 2006, based on molecular and morphological differences.
- Clouded leopards have the longest canines relative to skull size of any living cat, proportionally close to a sabre-tooth's. Their ankles rotate far enough to let them climb down trees head-first and hang from a branch by their hind feet alone. The Bornean and Sumatran animals were only split off as a separate species in 2006, making this one of the most recently described big cats. Almost everything known about their behaviour in the wild comes from camera traps, since direct sightings are exceptionally rare.
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