In a country crawling with feral cats, the birth of a litter of kittens should hardly make a stir. Yet when Rotem, a sand cat, gave birth to four live little balls of fur at Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan Zoo, the conservation world perked up its ears. "We are very excited because [the] sand cat is an extinct species in Israel, although in the world it's not extinct, it's nearly threatened,” said Keren Or, the Ramat Gan’s information coordinator. The sand cat is the world’s only true desert cat …More