Pallas's cat
The most unusual cat of wild steppes with a broad but fragmented distribution in the grassland and mountain steppes of Central Asia. Predominantly crepuscular (active at dusk and dawn), these cats can be active at any time of the day in winter. As a result of its cryptic coloration (i.e.,well camouflaged) very little data exists on population trends for the Pallas’s cat in Mongolia and this species may be re-categorized as Threatened under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Criterion A in the future when assessing the species’ population.