Andean mountain cat (Leopardus jacobita) is a small wildcat. http://anunezlemos.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Andean-cat-Gato-Andino/G0000sWzXFNF39EY/I00006_TdJJb8Pek | http://www.wildcatconservation.org/wild-cats/south-america/andean-cat/ | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_mountain_cat

Pampas cat (Leopardus pajeros) is a small cat native to Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia. This variant has flanks with large, reddish-brown, rosette-shaped spots with darker borders, numerous rings on the tail (of the same colour as the flank spots), and very dark brown (almost black) stripes on the legs and spots/stripes on the underparts. In colour and pattern, this group closely resembles colocolos of the subspecies L. colocolo wolffsohni.

Andean mountain cat

Andean mountain cat. Currently they are endangered with fewer than 2500 cats left in the wild.

The Andean Mountain cat, so rarely seen in the wild that very little is known of its habits. Believed to prey on chinchilla, viscacha and other mountain rodents. So little known that it seems there is no agreement even on its Latin name - Oncifelis jacobita or Leopardus jacobita?

When an Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) suddenly showed up in the middle of a synthetic soccer field in Bolivia, the wild feline was far from anywhere that should have been home. Not knowing what else to do, local people put the Endangered cat in a birdcage to hand it over to authorities. How the housecat-sized feline […]

The Andean cat is one of the rarest and least-known cats in the world. Learn more about the Andean cat and how your support can ensure its future for generations to come.