# Interesting looking small (Pallas Cat) wildcats born in captivity

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**Created:** [September 3, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025 "2011-09-03T03:45:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/21 "2011-09-07T05:02:24Z")

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> [@wolfman](#):
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> They look like Snark from the Thundercats.

Snarf.

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**Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-looking-small-pallas-cat-wildcats-born-in-captivity/595025/22 "2011-09-07T17:08:52Z")

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The first Youtube link refers to “typical Pallas Cat jumpy movement,” which appears to be characteristic of them.

Incidentally, in the interest of SMDB nitpicking, the nomenclature is apparently “Pallas’s Cat,” named after a man named Pallas.

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