But the real problem, say zoologists, is that big cats need large habitats to survive, so there never could have been very large numbers of them on Taiwan, an island, in the first place. So they had little room to adapt to changes in their environment.
但動物學者認為，貓科動物活動的領域廣大，需要大片捕食面積，在海島台灣本來就屬少數族群，對環境改變的容忍力相對也低。