23 Facts About Pallas's cat

The Pallas's cat's pupils are rounded, a unique feature among the Felinae.

Pallas's cat was first described in 1776 by Peter Simon Pallas, who observed it in the vicinity of Lake Baikal.

The Pallas's cat is estimated to have genetically diverged from a common ancestor with the genus Prionailurus between based on analysis of nuclear DNA.

Pallas's cat's fur is light grey with pale yellowish-ochre or pale yellowish-reddish hues.

Pallas's cat's ears are grey with a yellowish tinge on the back and a darker rim, but with whitish hair in front and in the ear pinnae.

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Pallas's cat's range extends from the Caucasus eastward to Central Asia, Mongolia and adjacent parts of Dzungaria and the Tibetan Plateau.

The Pallas's cat was photographed multiple times in Bamyan Province between 2015 and 2017.

Historical records of the Pallas's cat are known in the Surxondaryo Region and Gissar Range along the border of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

In 2011, the Pallas's cat was photographed in an alpine meadow in the core area of Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve.

In December 2012, the Pallas's cat was recorded for the first time in the Nepal Himalayas.

Pallas's cat uses caves, rock crevices and marmot burrows as shelter.

In central Mongolia, 29 Pallas's cat were fitted with radio collars between June 2005 and October 2007.

Pallas's cat is a highly specialised predator of small mammals, which it catches by stalking or ambushing near exits of burrows.

Scat samples of the Pallas's cat collected in the bufferzone of Khustain Nuruu National Park in central Mongolia contained foremost remains of Daurian pika, Mongolian gerbil, Mongolian silver vole and remains of passerine birds, beetles and grasshoppers.

SPallas's cat found in Shey-Phoksundo National Park contained remains of pika species and of woolly hare.

In Iran, a Pallas's cat was observed using cavities of aged Greek juniper as breeding dens for a litter of four kittens.

In China, Mongolia and Russia, the Pallas's cat was once hunted for its fur in large numbers of more than 10,000 skins annually.

In China and the former Soviet Union, hunting of the Pallas's cat decreased in the 1970s when it became legally protected.

In 1984, the Pallas's cat was designated as a priority species for captive breeding of the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums's Species Survival Plan.

In 2011, a female Pallas's cat was artificially inseminated for the first time with semen from the male at the Cincinnati Zoo.

The common name 'Pallas's cat' was coined by William Thomas Blanford in honour of Peter Simon Pallas.

Pallas's cat is featured in a Russian Internet meme known as "Pet the cat" introduced in 2008.

In 2012, the Pallas's cat overwhelmingly won an online vote to decide the Moscow Zoo mascot.