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A keeper's cat blog : African golden cat

Discussion in 'General Zoo Discussion' started by devilfish, 18 Feb 2015.

  1. devilfish

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    A really great article!

    I know about this cat and would love to photograph it myself, but it is not feasible. Even if I went to Europe (which I am in a week) and booked a direct flight on Air France from Paris, the cost is still over 1500 US dollars - more than a flight from the US to Europe. Plus the logistics of traveling in Gabon.

    What I really wish is I could have seen them at Port Lympne before they died out there.
     
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    Very intresting article, thanks for sharing Devilfish !
    I myself was so lucky to see the African golden cat at Rotterdam Zoo several times at the end of the 1970-ties - beginning 1980-ties. Didn't have a good camera at that time so.... no pictures :( !
     
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    The African golden cat was also kept in another dutch zoo : Artis Amsterdam Zoo but this one I've never seen. It was donated to the zoo in July 1923.
     
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    Thanks for sharing this interesting link.

    And I always thought Roque Ja of the Jeff Smith's "Bone" comics was based on an oversized cougar...;)
     
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    ....African Golden Cat

    Gerald Durrell caught one back in the fifties, which I believe went to London Zoo, recorded in The Bafut Beagles (if I remember correctly).