A keeper's cat blog : African golden cat

A really great article!

I know about this cat and would love to photograph it myself, but it is not feasible. Even if I went to Europe (which I am in a week) and booked a direct flight on Air France from Paris, the cost is still over 1500 US dollars - more than a flight from the US to Europe. Plus the logistics of traveling in Gabon.

What I really wish is I could have seen them at Port Lympne before they died out there.
 
Very intresting article, thanks for sharing Devilfish !
I myself was so lucky to see the African golden cat at Rotterdam Zoo several times at the end of the 1970-ties - beginning 1980-ties. Didn't have a good camera at that time so.... no pictures :( !
 
The African golden cat was also kept in another dutch zoo : Artis Amsterdam Zoo but this one I've never seen. It was donated to the zoo in July 1923.
 
Thanks for sharing this interesting link.

And I always thought Roque Ja of the Jeff Smith's "Bone" comics was based on an oversized cougar...;)
 
....African Golden Cat

Gerald Durrell caught one back in the fifties, which I believe went to London Zoo, recorded in The Bafut Beagles (if I remember correctly).
 
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