🐈Andean mountain cat
El gato andino (Leopardus jacobita), también conocido como titi (del aimara), chinchay, osjo (del quechua Usqu), gato lince, tigrillo o gato sagrado, es una especie de mamífero carnívoro de la familia Felidae. Es uno de los felinos menos conocidos y a su vez la especie más amenazada de felinos del continente americano. Es natural de América del Sur y su distribución geográfica se limita a las regiones montañosas de los Andes; al centro y sur de Perú, en las tierras altas de Bolivia (departamentos de La Paz, Oruro y Potosí), y el norte andino de Chile y Argentina. Aunque en los últimos años se ha registrado la presencia de este felino tan al sur como las cordilleras del centro y sur de Mendoza y el norte de Neuquén (Departamento de Loncopué) en Argentina, y las regiones de Santiago y el Maule en Chile. El conocimiento de la distribución de este elusivo y amenazado felino aumentó con la proliferación de dispositivos fotográficos y cámaras trampas en esas zonas, sobre todo a partir de la segunda década del siglo XXI.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 8.13 kg
- Body length
- 0.6 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 15 years
Everything we know about the Andean mountain cat
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass8.13 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.6 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan15 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length3.81 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation64 daysestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 3estimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l8.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Andean mountain cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyFelidae
- ›genusLeopardus
- ›speciesLeopardus jacobitus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyFelidae
- genusLeopardus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- familyFelidae
- genusLeopardus
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