 Pieter
discovered a black footed cat which was run over on a dirt road
near the Savannah, about 400km away from this study area. He
brought the skin to the study area. The scientsts will use DNA
from this skin to determine how closly related the two black
footed populations are. |
The researchers were from San Diego Wild Animal Park, Cincinnati Zoo, and a zoo in Germany. The researchers were situated near Kimberly where they were doing research on the black footed cat, an endangered animal which is the smallest of all cats: about five pounds full grown. They were launching a poster campaign to increase awareness of the black footed cat among the residents of the area. Pieter brought with him a pelt from a roadkill black footed cat he found a few months prior. The team said they would do DNA research on it to find out how closely the population near Kimberly was related to the population near the Savannah.
