AnimalvsAnimal
Leopardus geoffroyi uruguay🐈

Photo: Fedaro · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Geoffroy's cat

Leopardus geoffroyi (d'Orbigny & Gervais, 1844)

Ocelot argentyński, kot argentyński, kot Geoffroya (Leopardus geoffroyi) – gatunek drapieżnego ssaka z podrodziny kotów (Felinae) w obrębie rodziny kotowatych (Felidae). Strefy hybrydyzacji stwierdzono w południowej Brazylii, gdzie zasięg L. geoffroyi pokrywa się z zasięgiem L. tigrinus.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
None yet
Photos
2
Measurements
11
vs you
≈ 1/16th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2026.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
4 kg
Body length
0.7 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
23 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Geoffroy's cat

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

Body mass
4 kg
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

  • 4 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.7 m
COMBINE
Details ↓

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

Brain mass
33 g
COMBINE
Details ↓

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

Maximum lifespan
23 years
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

  • 23 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
7.74 years
COMBINE
Details ↓

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

Age at maturity
1.3 years
COMBINE
Details ↓

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

Gestation
75 days
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

  • 75 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 2
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

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

Figures vary

  • 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
COMBINE
Details ↓

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

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
COMBINE
Details ↓

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

Volume l
4 Laverage
Details ↓

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 Geoffroy's cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyFelidae
  6. ›genusLeopardus
  7. ›speciesLeopardus geoffroyi
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyFelidae
  4. genusLeopardus
All 14 branches ↓
  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
More

More about the Geoffroy's cat

Closest relative on this site
🐈 Kodkod — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.5 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals80%
reptiles, fish and amphibians10%
fish10%
In other languages
Geoffroy-Katze (de), Leopardus geoffroyi (es), Chat de Geoffroy (fr), 喬氏貓 (zh), Kot argentyński (pl), Geoffroy-macska (hu) … and 23 more languages
Videos

No videos of the Geoffroy's cat yet.

We have 44,653 videos so far, and none of them features this animal yet.

All videos →
Tools

Compare the Geoffroy's cat

Pick a tool — the Geoffroy's cat is already selected.