A new wild cat species has been identified for the first time in over a century.
In 2017, Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a Bolivian biologist, got a call about a weird cat that a local man had taken home. The man had raised it as a pet for a year before realising this was no house cat. Nine years, one genome study and a lot of confused Brazilian guidebooks later, that cat now has a name, Leopardus tilcayo: the world’s first new feline species since 1923. https://archive.li/AqnrA
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