How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist

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Post by n1b0m » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC

How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist
theguardian.com

Re: How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 3:08 PM UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWLD9g73HLk

Re: How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist

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Post by nok22kon » Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 4:34 AM UTC

I bet some influencer is thinking right now "what if I had the world's most exclusive cat?"

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Post by killingtime74 » Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 5:23 AM UTC

nok22kon wrote: post #3

I bet some influencer is thinking right now "what if I had the world's most exclusive cat?"

Sand cat is in danger

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Post by EdwardDiego » Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 5:32 AM UTC

nok22kon wrote: post #3

I bet some influencer is thinking right now "what if I had the world's most exclusive cat?"

There's probably 10 in Russian apartments already, next door to the ocelots.

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Post by tetris11 » Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 5:35 AM UTC

nok22kon wrote: post #3

I bet some influencer is thinking right now "what if I had the world's most exclusive cat?"

given the concentrated nature of desert species' urine, I wonder how long that fad will last

Re: How a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya's sand cat does exist

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Post by IshKebab » Sun, Jun 28, 2026, 9:20 AM UTC

The title deliberately makes it sound like people didn't know if the cat exists, but it's actually that they didn't know it was in Libya. It should be "...proved the sand cat's presence in Lybia" or something.