Checkup for Leopards
Series: August 2009 - Isla Earth Radio Series
From: Pat Maxwell
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Veterinarians made a house call on the world’s rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards believed to exist in the wild. And it was captured in a remote part of the Russian Far East near the Chinese border. One concern is that inbreeding might be damaging the health of such a small population.
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Veterinarians made a house call on the world’s rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards believed to exist in the wild. And it was captured in a remote part of the Russian Far East near the Chinese border. One concern is that inbreeding might be damaging the health of such a small population.
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