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Puma yagouaroundi🐈

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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Jaguarundi

Puma yagouaroundi (É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Jaguarundi amerykański, jaguarundi zatokowy, jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) – gatunek ssaka z podrodziny kotów (Felinae) w obrębie rodziny kotowatych (Felidae). W porównaniu do innych przedstawicieli podrodziny kotów ma bardziej spiczasty pysk, proporcjonalnie dłuższy tułów i krótsze nogi. Jego zasięg obejmuje tereny od Paragwaju aż po południowo-wschodnią część Stanów Zjednoczonych.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 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 · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · 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/ · see citation

Maximum lifespan
19 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
73 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 2
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · 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. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyFelidae
  6. ›genusPuma
  7. ›speciesPuma yagouaroundi
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · 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 · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderFeliformia
  13. familyFelidae
  14. genusPuma
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More about the Jaguarundi

Closest relative on this site
🐾 Cougar — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.0 million years ago.
In other languages
Jaguarundi amerykański (pl), יגוארונדי (he), Jaguarondi (fr), 재규어런디 (ko), Puma yagouaroundi (es), jaguarundi (hu) … and 27 more languages
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