The Pallas cat is about the size of a typical house cat. It's habitat is scattered parts of wilderness in central Asia, and it is considered borderline endangered. The spots on its forehead are a distinguishing characteristic.
September 22, 2014
September 22, 1741
Peter Simon Pallas, (September 22, 1741 to September 8, 1811) a German born explorer, is renowned for his explorations for Catherine the Great, in the Russian empire. But earlier, his Miscellanea Zoologica (1766), reminds us that museum collections were then, as they are now, great places to discover stuff.That book describes several vertebrates unknown before to science, which Pallas found in Dutch museum collections. Siberia though was the site of discoveries which made him famous. And one of these was a feline. The "Pallas's cat" was named for him, though it shared none of that Germanic urge to study and classify that it's title might connote.
The Pallas cat is about the size of a typical house cat. It's habitat is scattered parts of wilderness in central Asia, and it is considered borderline endangered. The spots on its forehead are a distinguishing characteristic.
The Pallas cat is about the size of a typical house cat. It's habitat is scattered parts of wilderness in central Asia, and it is considered borderline endangered. The spots on its forehead are a distinguishing characteristic.
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