What is Pallas's cat?
{{Speciesbox | name = Pallas's cat | image = Manoel.jpg | image_caption = Manul at [[Rotterdam Zoo]] | status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name = iucn/> | genus = Otocolobus | parent_authority = [[Johann Friedrich von Brandt|Brandt]], 1841 | species = manul<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Wozencraft |page=535 |id=14000043 |heading=''Felis manul''}}</ref> | authority = ([[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1776) | range_map = Manul_distribution.jpg | range_map_caption = Distribution of Pallas's cat in 2016<ref name = iucn/> }} '''Pallas's cat''' (''Otocolobus manul'') is also called the '''manul'''. It is a small [[Felidae|wild cat]] with a very wide distribution in the [[grasslands]] and [[montane]] [[steppe]]s of [[Central Asia]]. It is affected by its [[habitat]] getting smaller by being destroyed, with fewer [[prey]], and is also [[hunting|hunted]] by [[poaching|poachers]]. It is classified as [[Near Threatened]] on the [[IUCN Red List]].<ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |journal=[[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]] |publisher=[[IUCN]] |title=''Otocolobus manul'' |author=Ross, S. |author2=Barashkova, A. |author3=Farhadinia, M. S. |author4=Appel, A. |author5=Riordan, P. |author6=Sanderson, J. |author7=Munkhtsog, B. |name-list-style=amp |date=2016 |volume=2016 |page=e.T15640A87840229 |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15640/87840229 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T15640A87840229.en}}</ref> Pallas's cat was first described in 1776 by the [[German people|German]] [[naturalist]] Peter Simon Pallas.<ref name=Pallas1776>{{cite book |last1=Pallas |first1=P. S. |year=1776 |title=Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des russischen Reichs in einem ausführlichen Auszuge. Volume 3 |publisher=J. G. Fleischer |location=Frankfurt und Leipzig |chapter=''Felis manul'' |chapter-url=https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN33004978X?tify={%22pages%22:[242],%22view%22:%22info%22} |page=692}}</ref><ref name=Pallas>{{cite book |author=Pallas, P. S. |year=1811 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/zoographiarossoa11831p