Our website can bring some wondrous surprises. In mid October, we received a comment on our flat-headed Cat fact sheet. The commenter said they had captured two flat-headed cats on film in Tanjung Puting National Park in Borneo. Would we be interested?
We immediately answered with a resounding yes, and Amy Alton of OutChasingStars.com sent us this amazing footage. To our knowledge, this is the first time a flat-headed cat kitten has ever been filmed.The video was taken in October 2018.
They were on an orangutan tour and their guide took them to a local villager who drove them along a dirt road. He spotted these two animals by the reflection of their eyes, and identified them as civet cats.
Flat-headed cats are one of the least-known cat species in the world, both to the scientific community and local people who live near them. Hopefully this video will help with future conservation efforts. Thank you Amy, for your generosity in sharing your footage!
Read more about these little known cats on our flat-headed cat fact sheet.
Alessandra Bearardi Arrigoni
I didn’t know this species, how beautiful!
Susan
This is super-exciting. Fabulous picture/video. Didn’t seem afraid of the light or the presence of Amy with camera. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yvonne
This is amazing, what a wonderfull video. I post it on my FB right away. Thanks for showing 🙂