In 1982 the biology department at Tunghai University conducted an island-wide wildlife survey. Most young people in the mountain villages said that they had never heard of any clouded leopards being sighted in the past thirty years, but some people reported them being caught and killed ten years ago, and two old-timers believed that they still existed and even pointed out where they could be seen.
民國七十一年，東海大學生物系做全省野生動物調查，到各山地村訪問，不少年輕人表示，卅年內未曾聽過雲豹出現的消息；但也有人指出十年前曾有過一次捕殺記錄；還有二位老山胞認為仍有雲豹存在，並指出可能出沒的地點。