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2026-06-25 22:04:23 UTC

John :af: :60: :05: :12: :GP: :FTS: on Nostr: When #wildlife photographer #MohammedAlmuntasir uploaded 18 seconds of footage to ...

When #wildlife photographer #MohammedAlmuntasir 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 #SandCat (Felis margarita), the world’s only felid adapted to true desert conditions, existed in the country.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/youtube-video-proved-libya-sand-cat-exist-aoe