A new population of the Andean cat, a house cat-sized feline thought to live exclusively in the high mountains of South America, has been discovered at lower elevations, extending the range of the ...

With this deployment, it was possible to identify the nocturnal passage of a solitary Andean cat, it was explained. “After several years of work to record it, which had been reported by a local ...

Once thought to exclusively inhabit its namesake mountain range, the threatened Andean cat—a house cat-sized feline that resembles a small snow leopard in both appearance and habitat—also ...

The Andean cat ranges from remote areas of central Peru to the Patagonian steppe. Perfectly adapted to extreme environments, this small feline is threatened by habitat degradation and hunting ...

The rare and enigmatic Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) was once thought to be confined to the higher elevations of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. However, a new survey, ...

Many species, such as the fishing cat and Andean cat, are specialists, thriving in specific habitats, making them potentially important indicators of ecosystem health. Conservationists believe ...

Scientists have suspected a unique small cat roamed Central and South America for more than a decade, but it took intense genetic work and 40 experts to put all the pieces together. When Joel ...