A Michael Broad Blog
Although there is only one true desert-living small cat, the sand cat, there are four other small wild cat species that can make a living in the desert: Pallas’s cat, bobcat, Andean cat and pampas cat. Bobcats occur in four deserts of North America. The bobcat has a very wide distribution which is why …
I am referring to wild cat species and secondly there is no cat species which only lives in the snow all the time. I guess that is common sense but the wild cat species listed, of which there are 12, spend at least part of their time in a snowy landscape more so than …
A tribal chief who’s name was Colocolo connects a Chilean football club and a wild cat species, the Pampas cat. ‘Colocolo means ‘mountain cat’ in the Mapuche language which is spoken in south-central Chile and west central Argentina. Leader The word Colocolo was given to a prominent Mapuche leader in the Arauco War (1550 …
The oncilla in the south of Brazil currently mates with Geoffroy’s cat (L. geoffroyi) creating a hybrid, while the oncilla in the northeast of Brazil in ancient times mated with the pampas cat (L. colocolo)¹. Currently there is a relatively small overlap in the distributions of the oncilla and Geoffroy’s cat. The southern oncillas don’t mix …
The pampas cat is a species of wild cat. “Species” means a type or sort of wild cat that is different from the other 35 wild cats. This cat prefers to live in grasslands. Its name is based on this fact. In Argentina and Chile, two places where it lives, it is called the …
Although you will see three clean and clear photographs of the pampas cat below, visitors should know that the coat colour, pattern and texture can vary substantially across the range of this cat species which extends almost the entire length of South America. The coat of the cat illustrated below is long and it …
Pampas Cat and Taxonomy Taxonomy is about the classification of species and there seems to be uncertainty in this area with respect to this cat. The Sunquists (albeit in 2002) classify the cat as being in the genus Oncifelis, while the Red List of Threatened Species™ (Red List) place this cat in the genus …
