VIDEO: It is a modern-day sabre-tooth tiger with fearsome fangs capable of killing its prey in a single bite.

This clouded leopard which feasts on monkeys, deer and pigs has been discovered living deep in the Borneo rain forest.

Long thought to be identical to the clouded leopards living on mainland South East Asia, genetic analysis has shown that the Bornean big cat is in fact a separate species.

Scientists have counted at least 40 key differences in the DNA of the two felines - making the two species of clouded leopard almost as different as a lion is to a tiger.