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- The world's least-known feline, the endangered flat-headed cat, has fewer than 2,500 mature individuals left in the wild. Destruction of the wetlands on which they depend, in their home range of the inland peat swamps and mangrove forests of Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia, has led to the loss of flat-headed cats.
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