🐈Kodkod
The kodkod, also called güiña, is the smallest felid species native to the Americas. It lives primarily in central and southern Chile, as well as marginally in adjoining areas of Argentina. Between 1996 and 2002, it was listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List as the total population was thought to be fewer than 10,000 mature individuals; it is threatened by persecution, habitat loss and prey base.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 2.2 kg
- Body length
- 0.49 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 11 years
Everything we know about the Kodkod
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.2 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 2.23 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length0.49 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan11 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length6 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation67 daysestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 2estimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l2.2 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 Kodkod yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyFelidae
- ›genusLeopardus
- ›speciesLeopardus guigna
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyFelidae
- genusLeopardus
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- familyFelidae
- genusLeopardus
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