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Leopardus guigna🐈

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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Kodkod

Leopardus guigna (Molina, 1782)

De nachtkat of kodkod (Leopardus guigna) is een schuwe katachtige uit Chili en Argentinië. Het is de kleinste kat van Zuid-Amerika, ongeveer zo groot als een kleine huiskat, en is een van de dertien soorten in het geslacht pardelkat. De nachtkat heeft de kleinste verspreiding van alle katachtigen uit de Nieuwe Wereld en komt alleen voor in het zuiden van Chili en uiterste zuidwesten van Argentinië, waar hij vrijwel uitsluitend voorkomt in de ecoregio's de Chileense Matorral en het gematigd bos van Valdivia. De nachtkat staat op Appendix II van de Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora en is door de International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) als "kwetsbaar" aangemerkt vanwege habitatverlies en -fragmentatie, menselijke vervolging en de afnemende populatie.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/28th of your weight
Also called
Chilean cat, guigna, guiña
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Kodkod

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

Body mass
2.2 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2.23 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
0.49 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
11 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Generation length
6 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
67 daysestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Litter size
about 2estimated
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.2 Laverage
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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.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyFelidae
  6. ›genusLeopardus
  7. ›speciesLeopardus guigna
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyFelidae
  4. genusLeopardus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderFeliformia
  13. familyFelidae
  14. genusLeopardus
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Closest relative on this site
🐈 Geoffroy's cat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.5 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals100%
In other languages
Chilenische Waldkatze (de), huiña (es), kodkod (fr), Ocelot chilijski (pl), Kodkod (hu), kodkod (it) … and 24 more languages
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