The little-known and elusive African golden cat has been caught on camera for the first time in Uganda hunting during daylight in Kibale National Park.
Scientists set up cameras in Kibale National Park in Uganda in the hope of capturing the elusive African golden cat which has never been filmed in the country before.
The footage they got surpassed many expectations.
Not only did they capture the golden cat on camera, but they also showed it hunting red colobus monkeys.
“Watching a golden cat in full ambush of large monkeys in this video provides hunting details we could previously only piece together from brief sightings,” researcher Laila Bahaa-el-din said in a statement.
The camera trap was set up by Samuel Angedakin, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology’s Pan African Programme.
The animal has been filmed once before in Gabon in 2011, but this footage is believed to be some of the first in Uganda.
Yasuko Tashiro of the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University also filmed the cat being harassed by monkeys in Kalinzu Forest Reserve, Uganda.
The African golden cat is found only in the forests of Central and West Africa, and grows to the size of a bobcat, weighing between 11-35lbs.
Source: The Telegraph
