The Libyan Sand Cat

A sandy desert landscape with spare, dry-looking grasses; a surly looking cat with a round face almost exactly the same color as the ground and vegetation is looking at the camera.
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A sandy desert landscape with spare, dry-looking grasses; a surly looking cat with a round face almost exactly the same color as the ground and vegetation is looking at the camera.
source: https://www.theguardian.com/environm...

"When wildlife photographer Mohammed Almuntasir uploaded 18 seconds of footage to YouTube, he thought little more about the small, pale cat seen digging a hollow in the sand in the remote dunes of south-west Libya.

"The video, however, posted in 2017, turned out to be the first material evidence that the sand cat (Felis margarita), the world’s only felid adapted to true desert conditions, existed in the country."

Almuntasir's YouTube video and more photos of this beautiful baby at the link. (The sand cat was not believed extinct or anything, but there is apparently a thriving population in the Libyan desert that was not previously known to exist.)

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