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"WILD-BORN wildcat kittens have been spotted without collars following a
successful breeding season.
The Saving Wildcats partnership, led by the Royal Zoological Society of
Scotland, announced in August that at least two of the females bred in
captivity and released into the Cairngorms National Park had given birth in the
wild.
Of the at least 16 born, one has now been spotted on a camera trap.
The team can identify that the kitten is first-generation offspring since it is
not wearing a tracking collar. They are not collared as the tracking collars
cannot be fitted to growing animals born in the wild.
There are now increasing numbers of wildcats across Badenoch and Strathspey, a
conservation boost, and most of them do not have tracking collars. Saving
Wildcats are continuing to monitor the population as best as possible using a
network of camera traps, the locations of which are informed by the wealth of
tracking data that we have collected since the first release.
The project has also called on the pubic to assist them in their research,
saying they rely on public sightings to keep track of the new and growing
population."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
