A new scientific finding marks the first documented discovery of Pallas's Cat on the world's highest mountain. A new paper published in Cat News has made a landmark identification of the first recorded sighting of Pallas's cat on Mount Everest, located in Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal. This ext
Findings from a new paper published in Cat News have identified the first ever report of Pallas’s cat on Mount Everest, in the Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal. Credit: Julie Larsen/Maher/WCS
From April 7th to May 2nd, 2019, Dr. Tracie Seimon, a co-leader of the biology field team from the Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition, and part of the Zoological Health Program at theBronx Zoo, collected environmental samples from two sites located at elevations of 5,110 and 5,190 meters above sea level, along Sagarmatha National Park on the Southern Flank of Mount Everest. The samples were taken from locations 6 km apart.at the top of the world,” said Dr. Seimon.
The number of tourists visiting Sagarmatha National Park and Mount Everest has been dramatically increasing, from just a few thousand in the 1970s to over fifty thousand in 2019. It is notable that Pallas’s cat went undetected in this park until 2019, and the new study demonstrates how conservation genetics and environmental sampling can be utilized as a powerful approach to discovering and studying cryptic and elusive species like Pallas’s cat.
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