Wednesday’s WTF!?!: Hey, Wha’s A Manul Wit You?!… Staying on the theme of meowmers, this week’s WTF!?! looks a bit like something created by some mad scientist who crossed an angry housecat with a raccoon and then fed it ALL THE PIES. This fierce-faced ball of felidae-fluff is called a Manul (Otocolobus manul), or Pallas’s cat (after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described the species in 1776). Not in actuality any much bigger than your average domestic cat, the manul looks to be much larger simply due to the sheer plushy plenitude of its fur.      Although it looks like it probably evolved from an Ewok, it’s believed, rather, that the manul diverged from a leopard cat ancestor roughly 5.19 million years ago (now pay attention - I said ” leopard cat”, not “leopard”. Two very different things!) It possesses several characteristics which set it apart from other cats; its legs are proportionately smaller, its claws unusually shorter, its ears are low and set wide apart and its pupils contract to small circles instead of slits. Broadly distributed across much of Central Asia, the manul is most abundant on the cold grasslands of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Elsewhere across its range it has become much less common, so much so that it is now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Now I guess we can’t blame the poor thing for looking so fed up and pi$$ed off all the time!…
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Wednesday’s WTF!?!: Hey, Wha’s A Manul Wit You?!… Staying on the theme of meowmers, this week’s WTF!?! looks a bit like something created by some mad scientist who crossed an angry housecat with a raccoon and then fed it ALL THE PIES. This fierce-faced ball of felidae-fluff is called a Manul (Otocolobus manul), or Pallas’s cat (after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described the species in 1776). Not in actuality any much bigger than your average domestic cat, the manul looks to be much larger simply due to the sheer plushy plenitude of its fur.      Although it looks like it probably evolved from an Ewok, it’s believed, rather, that the manul diverged from a leopard cat ancestor roughly 5.19 million years ago (now pay attention - I said ” leopard cat”, not “leopard”. Two very different things!) It possesses several characteristics which set it apart from other cats; its legs are proportionately smaller, its claws unusually shorter, its ears are low and set wide apart and its pupils contract to small circles instead of slits. Broadly distributed across much of Central Asia, the manul is most abundant on the cold grasslands of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Elsewhere across its range it has become much less common, so much so that it is now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Now I guess we can’t blame the poor thing for looking so fed up and pi$$ed off all the time!…
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Wednesday’s WTF!?!: Hey, Wha’s A Manul Wit You?!… Staying on the theme of meowmers, this week’s WTF!?! looks a bit like something created by some mad scientist who crossed an angry housecat with a raccoon and then fed it ALL THE PIES. This fierce-faced ball of felidae-fluff is called a Manul (Otocolobus manul), or Pallas’s cat (after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described the species in 1776). Not in actuality any much bigger than your average domestic cat, the manul looks to be much larger simply due to the sheer plushy plenitude of its fur.      Although it looks like it probably evolved from an Ewok, it’s believed, rather, that the manul diverged from a leopard cat ancestor roughly 5.19 million years ago (now pay attention - I said ” leopard cat”, not “leopard”. Two very different things!) It possesses several characteristics which set it apart from other cats; its legs are proportionately smaller, its claws unusually shorter, its ears are low and set wide apart and its pupils contract to small circles instead of slits. Broadly distributed across much of Central Asia, the manul is most abundant on the cold grasslands of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Elsewhere across its range it has become much less common, so much so that it is now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Now I guess we can’t blame the poor thing for looking so fed up and pi$$ed off all the time!…
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Wednesday’s WTF!?!: Hey, Wha’s A Manul Wit You?!… Staying on the theme of meowmers, this week’s WTF!?! looks a bit like something created by some mad scientist who crossed an angry housecat with a raccoon and then fed it ALL THE PIES. This fierce-faced ball of felidae-fluff is called a Manul (Otocolobus manul), or Pallas’s cat (after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described the species in 1776). Not in actuality any much bigger than your average domestic cat, the manul looks to be much larger simply due to the sheer plushy plenitude of its fur.      Although it looks like it probably evolved from an Ewok, it’s believed, rather, that the manul diverged from a leopard cat ancestor roughly 5.19 million years ago (now pay attention - I said ” leopard cat”, not “leopard”. Two very different things!) It possesses several characteristics which set it apart from other cats; its legs are proportionately smaller, its claws unusually shorter, its ears are low and set wide apart and its pupils contract to small circles instead of slits. Broadly distributed across much of Central Asia, the manul is most abundant on the cold grasslands of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Elsewhere across its range it has become much less common, so much so that it is now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Now I guess we can’t blame the poor thing for looking so fed up and pi$$ed off all the time!…
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Wednesday’s WTF!?!: Hey, Wha’s A Manul Wit You?!… Staying on the theme of meowmers, this week’s WTF!?! looks a bit like something created by some mad scientist who crossed an angry housecat with a raccoon and then fed it ALL THE PIES. This fierce-faced ball of felidae-fluff is called a Manul (Otocolobus manul), or Pallas’s cat (after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described the species in 1776). Not in actuality any much bigger than your average domestic cat, the manul looks to be much larger simply due to the sheer plushy plenitude of its fur.      Although it looks like it probably evolved from an Ewok, it’s believed, rather, that the manul diverged from a leopard cat ancestor roughly 5.19 million years ago (now pay attention - I said ” leopard cat”, not “leopard”. Two very different things!) It possesses several characteristics which set it apart from other cats; its legs are proportionately smaller, its claws unusually shorter, its ears are low and set wide apart and its pupils contract to small circles instead of slits. Broadly distributed across much of Central Asia, the manul is most abundant on the cold grasslands of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Elsewhere across its range it has become much less common, so much so that it is now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Now I guess we can’t blame the poor thing for looking so fed up and pi$$ed off all the time!…
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Wednesday’s WTF!?!: Hey, Wha’s A Manul Wit You?!… Staying on the theme of meowmers, this week’s WTF!?! looks a bit like something created by some mad scientist who crossed an angry housecat with a raccoon and then fed it ALL THE PIES. This fierce-faced ball of felidae-fluff is called a Manul (Otocolobus manul), or Pallas’s cat (after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described the species in 1776). Not in actuality any much bigger than your average domestic cat, the manul looks to be much larger simply due to the sheer plushy plenitude of its fur.      Although it looks like it probably evolved from an Ewok, it’s believed, rather, that the manul diverged from a leopard cat ancestor roughly 5.19 million years ago (now pay attention - I said ” leopard cat”, not “leopard”. Two very different things!) It possesses several characteristics which set it apart from other cats; its legs are proportionately smaller, its claws unusually shorter, its ears are low and set wide apart and its pupils contract to small circles instead of slits. Broadly distributed across much of Central Asia, the manul is most abundant on the cold grasslands of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Elsewhere across its range it has become much less common, so much so that it is now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Now I guess we can’t blame the poor thing for looking so fed up and pi$$ed off all the time!…
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Wednesday’s WTF!?!: Hey, Wha’s A Manul Wit You?!… Staying on the theme of meowmers, this week’s WTF!?! looks a bit like something created by some mad scientist who crossed an angry housecat with a raccoon and then fed it ALL THE PIES. This fierce-faced ball of felidae-fluff is called a Manul (Otocolobus manul), or Pallas’s cat (after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described the species in 1776). Not in actuality any much bigger than your average domestic cat, the manul looks to be much larger simply due to the sheer plushy plenitude of its fur.      Although it looks like it probably evolved from an Ewok, it’s believed, rather, that the manul diverged from a leopard cat ancestor roughly 5.19 million years ago (now pay attention - I said ” leopard cat”, not “leopard”. Two very different things!) It possesses several characteristics which set it apart from other cats; its legs are proportionately smaller, its claws unusually shorter, its ears are low and set wide apart and its pupils contract to small circles instead of slits. Broadly distributed across much of Central Asia, the manul is most abundant on the cold grasslands of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Elsewhere across its range it has become much less common, so much so that it is now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Now I guess we can’t blame the poor thing for looking so fed up and pi$$ed off all the time!…
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Wednesday’s WTF!?!: Hey, Wha’s A Manul Wit You?!…

Staying on the theme of meowmers, this week’s WTF!?! looks a bit like something created by some mad scientist who crossed an angry housecat with a raccoon and then fed it ALL THE PIES. This fierce-faced ball of felidae-fluff is called a Manul (Otocolobus manul), or Pallas’s cat (after the German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first described the species in 1776). Not in actuality any much bigger than your average domestic cat, the manul looks to be much larger simply due to the sheer plushy plenitude of its fur.     

Although it looks like it probably evolved from an Ewok, it’s believed, rather, that the manul diverged from a leopard cat ancestor roughly 5.19 million years ago (now pay attention - I said ” leopard cat”, not “leopard”. Two very different things!) It possesses several characteristics which set it apart from other cats; its legs are proportionately smaller, its claws unusually shorter, its ears are low and set wide apart and its pupils contract to small circles instead of slits. Broadly distributed across much of Central Asia, the manul is most abundant on the cold grasslands of Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and the Tibetan Plateau. Elsewhere across its range it has become much less common, so much so that it is now listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Now I guess we can’t blame the poor thing for looking so fed up and pi$$ed off all the time!…

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