Elusive bay cat caught on camera in Borneo

In 2013 the world's least known cat was caught on camera in a previously unsurveyed rainforest by scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Imperial College London. Until then, the bay cat (Pardofelis badia) had been recorded on camera traps just a handful of times in its Borneo forest home and was only photographed in the wild for the first time in 2003. But more images of this animal have been captured than ever before, in a heavily commercially logged area of forest where they were not expected to thrive, though the 2013 study showed solid evidence that they did. This is only one of four forest areas in all of Borneo - the third largest island in the world - which has so far been reported to have not only the bay cat, but four other cat species as well, the Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi), leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps) and marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata). Camera traps have transformed how information is