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Our Balkans correspondent, Guy Delaney.
And we finish in Thailand, where an elusive wildcat, long feared extinct, has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting.
Ankur Desai was joined in the studio by Anbarasan Etirajan.
It looks like a domestic cat, but smaller than a domestic one.
But it has got a very round, protruding eyes.
And then the skull is like flat.
So that is why it is called flat-headed cat.
And it lives mostly on peaty swamps and in mangrove forests in Southeast Asia.
The researchers in Thailand have been monitoring for the past two years are using camera traps, basically placing digital cameras in key locations that can be triggered.
Take a photograph as and when an animal crosses the path or any movement in front of it.
So now they have recorded at least 29 of the sightings.
And what is exciting was one of them was even having a baby.
A kitten was there.
So that shows that it was the result.
So they're thriving.
They lost a saw.
This particular cat in the mid-90s.
A long time ago then.
A long time ago.
Why was it thought to have disappeared then?