Muhammad Ali Nawaz didn't expect to see so many cats. Nawaz, a wildlife ecologist at Qatar University, had set out to survey Qatar for the sand cat, a tiny, seldom-studied felid that lives in deserts across Southwest and Central Asia, northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Though there were anecdotal reports of the species in Qatar - some cats photographed, some not - there were no systematic records. So, Nawaz and his collaborators set out …
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