Public shown rare wildcat kitten

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5-10-2008 11:24 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/41026779-4e58-4894-a81f-13b4494600c8/F47D1463-F219-475E-A68F-B4D35A902C95/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7393946.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7393946.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7393946.stm"><P class="first"><B>A rare kitten born at a wildlife park in Kent has been shown to the public for the first time.</B>
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The Scottish wildcat was born to a pair of pure bred cats at Wildwood Discovery park, near Canterbury, last month.
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His mother Flora, who is among just 400 Scottish wildcats thought to be left in the world, brought the kitten out to meet the public last week.
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Scientists say the species is nearly extinct because of interbreeding with domestic cats.
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Once the kitten can fend for itself its parents Hamish and Flora will be re-housed in a special retirement enclosure away from public view. 
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Macavity, a male wildcat that was born to the pair last year, will be matched with another pure bred female in the hope that they will mate.
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Scottish wildcats are the last wild feline in Britain, where they have lived for over two million years.
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They are an average of 50% larger than a domestic cat, have a two to three sq mile territory and are unique to Britain.</DIV></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7393946.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/4A52C8ED-EFD6-4DD4-9DCE-B980243380EE" alt="Wildcat and kitten (picture by Keith Marshall)" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F47D1463-F219-475E-A68F-B4D35A902C95/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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