{
  "id": 883475,
  "title": "Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/caught-on-camera-sand-cats-may-have-a-sizable-population-in-qatar",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-14T14:33:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/caught-on-camera-sand-cats-may-have-a-sizable-population-in-qatar/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}