Many species of cats still remain a mystery in the Asian forests. Now, for the first time ever, scientists revealed an estimated population density of the marbled cat from continental Asia.

The details of the study are published in the Journal of Mammalogy, researchers Priya Singh, affiliated to Researchers for Wildlife Conservation (RWC) in Bangalore, India, and David W. Macdonald of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford, have also estimated the population density of the elusive clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).

Meanwhile, it is very well known that Mizoram’s Dampa Tiger Reserve now holds the distinction of housing the highest number of clouded leopards in Southeast Asia, the state government claimed on Thursday. The density of population of clouded leopards, locally knows as ‘Kelral’, is 5.14 per 100 sq km in the reserve, situated along the Mizoram-Bangladesh-Tripura, it said in a release.

The release also stated that the area of the reserve is around 80 sq km, adding, the density of population of marbled cats, also known as ‘Sanghar’, is 5.03 per 100 sq km, to note down the further details, state’s Environment, Forests, and Climate Change Department placed several camera traps at different places across the Dampa Tiger Reserve, which captured the clouded leopards 84 times and the marbled cats 36 times, it read.

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