Sumatran Tiger Species Dahan Parent

IndonesiaNewsTime ~ Clouded leopard or tiger living in Sumatra and Kalimantan, is certainly a separate species of cat with the Latin name Neofelis diardi. Clouded leopard is found in a separate 1.5 million years with the common ancestor of species Chinese mainland clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).
Alleged Sumatran clouded leopard is a different species initiated through genetic research reported by Andrew C. Kitchener, Mark A. Beaumont, and Douglas Richardson in December 2006. Both found significant differences between the clouded leopard in Sumatra and Kalimantan with living in mainland China.
In addition to genetic differences, the pattern motif of Sumatra and Borneo clouded leopard is smaller and darker. But the results of this research has explored further.
Then, on Saturday, January 22, 2010, the BBC launched a team of scientists working in the Forest Protected Dermakot in Malaysia issued a video tape of this cat in the wild. The team led by Andreas Wilting of the Institute Leibniz Institute for Animals and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany, it captures images of a clouded leopard walking on the street.
This image is expected to increase the sample 15 and 16 clouded leopard clouded leopard of Borneo Sumatra, to study the molecular and genetic origin.
"Although we thought the clouded leopard of Borneo and Sumatra have been separated since the last ice age, is not known whether this isolation has led them to separate into two subspecies," said Wilting.
However, analysis of different teams to ensure both the appearance of so-called subspecies borneensis Neofelis diardi for living in Kalimantan and Neofelis diardi diardi for living in Sumatra.
Both have the same skin pattern, but have little differences in skull and tooth morphology. The results of this study published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution.
"So far we only speculate about the cause of evolution clouded leopard," said team member, Joerns Fickel. The cause is suspected to be a volcanic eruption of Toba about 75 thousand years ago that wiped out the tiger, clouded leopard that exist. One group to survive in China and one in Kalimantan. The second type is then separated into two, when a group moved to Sumatra in an ice age. But when the ice melts them totally separate.
The presence of clouded leopard is now threatened with extinction that fall into the category of protected rare animals of the world. Own habitat is threatened, because the forests of Borneo and Sumatra, including in the list of high deforestation rate.

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