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Puma yagouaroundi🐈

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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Jaguarundi

Puma yagouaroundi (Γ‰.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

De wezelkat, jaguarundi of jagoearoendi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), is een Amerikaans katachtig roofdier, dat behoort tot de geslachtengroep Acinonychini. Het is de enige soort van het monotypisch geslacht Herpailurus.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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β‰ˆ 1/9th of your weight
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2026.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
7 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
0.35 m
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
19 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Jaguarundi

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
7 kg
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Shoulder height
0.35 mnot stated
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ADW: "Shoulder height is approximately 350 mm, and the weight ranges from 4.5 to 9.0 kg." Single approximate value, sex not stated.

Source: Animal Diversity Web, Puma yagouaroundi account, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Puma_yagouaroundi/ Β· see citation

Maximum lifespan
19 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Gestation
73 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge Β· AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) Β· CC BY 3.0

Volume l
7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Jaguarundi yet: body length, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. β€ΊphylumChordata
  3. β€ΊclassMammalia
  4. β€ΊorderCarnivora
  5. β€ΊfamilyFelidae
  6. β€ΊgenusPuma
  7. β€ΊspeciesPuma yagouaroundi
Full lineage
  1. classMammals Β· Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans Β· Carnivora
  3. familyFelidae
  4. genusPuma
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals Β· Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans Β· Carnivora
  12. suborderFeliformia
  13. familyFelidae
  14. genusPuma
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Closest relative on this site
🐾 Cougar β€” last shared an ancestor β‰ˆ 3.0 million years ago.
In other languages
Jaguarundi amerykaΕ„ski (pl), יגוארונדי (he), Jaguarondi (fr), μž¬κ·œμ–΄λŸ°λ”” (ko), Puma yagouaroundi (es), jaguarundi (hu) … and 27 more languages
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