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SpeciesCarnivoraFelidae
Carnivores

🐈Andean mountain cat

Leopardus jacobitus (Cornalia, 1865)

Andinsk katt eller andinsk bergskatt (Leopardus jacobita eller Leopardus jacobitus) är en kattart som lever i Anderna. Den är ungefär lika stor som en tamkatt, men har längre och yvigare svans. Svansen är randad. Den andinska katten (även kallad andinsk höglandskatt eller bergskatt) beskrevs första gången 1865. Dess existens bevisades dock inte förrän 115 år senare, år 1980, då katten fotograferades av två forskare. Man vet fortfarande mycket litet om katten, men den närmaste släktingen tros vara ozeloten.

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Also called
Leopardus jacobita, Andean cat, mountain cat
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
8.13 kg
Body length
0.6 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Everything we know about the Andean mountain cat

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Body mass
8.13 kg
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Body length
0.6 m
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Maximum lifespan
15 yearsestimated
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Generation length
3.81 years
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Gestation
64 daysestimated
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Litter size
about 3estimated
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Volume l
8.1 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 Andean mountain cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyFelidae
  6. ›genusLeopardus
  7. ›speciesLeopardus jacobitus
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
Andenkatze (de), Leopardus jacobita (es), Chat des Andes (fr), Fjellkatt (nb), ocelot andyjski (pl), andesi hegyimacska (hu) … and 23 more languages
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