The presence of the manul has been confirmed in the region around Sagarmatha (also known as Mount Everest) .
- Manuls were first recorded in the western Himalayas, in India, in the late 80s, and again in early 2000s. Then, in September 2007, conservationist Pranav Chanchani, from the Wildlife Institute of India, photographed one of the cats in the eastern Himalayas, in Sikkim.
- A recent study published in the journal CATnews that analysed scat samples in the region around Sagarmatha found evidence of at least two of the cats living in the region.
- The IUCN includes the whole of the Himalayan range as part of the manul’s range. But the cats have only infrequently been spotted in the Himalayas, and never before confirmed in the eastern Himalayas of Nepal, which includes the Sagarmatha area.
Manul
- Manul, or Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) is a cold-adapted wild cat the size of a domestic cat.
- Its range is already known to include other parts of the Himalayas, stretching east to Siberia and west to the Iranian Plateau.
- David Attenborough once described the elusive manul, the world’s grumpiest cat.
- This appears to be the newest-known haunt of the manul, or Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul), a cold-adapted species, about the size of a domestic cat.
- Its range is already known to include other parts of the Himalayas, stretching east to Siberia and west to the Iranian Plateau.
