A research team got more than they expected when they found that their camera traps had captured the first photograph of the elusive yellow-bellied weasel in Cambodia.
The image was captured on a camera trap, which was part of a joint camera trapping initiative by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU).
The research team – led by FFI field biologist Channa Phan – were conducting a study of clouded leopards in the Central Cardamoms Protected Forest in southern Cambodia. Finding the weasel outside its usual range came as a surprise, as it was previously believed that the animal was found only in the pine forests of Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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