A human would have to eat 28 dinners at one sitting to match the Andean cat

The human equivalent of an Andean cat meal at one sitting

The Andean Mountain cat eats the human equivalent of 30 pounds of food at one sitting. A human eating a normal meal would have to eat 28 standard meals at one sitting to match the appetite and eating abilities of the Andean cat. Yes, I know some people eat enormous meals but even those …

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Andean mountain cat might use its decaying faeces to keep warm

Andean mountain cat set against the Andes

The Andean mountain cat is quite well known nowadays thanks to the Internet but scientifically speaking there’s more to know about this small wild cat species that looks a little like a domestic tabby cat. They live, as the name implies, in the high plains of the Andean Mountains where it is bitterly cold …

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I explain the reason why the Andean cat has a grey/brown coat and the sand cat has a sandy coat

How evolution changed the coats of the sand cat and Andean cat

Natural selection and selection pressures over millions of years of evolution is the reason why the Andean mountain cat has a predominantly grey coat while the sand cat has a sandy-coloured, even coat. These small wild cats illustrate how evolution works. The process is not about cats consciously adapting to the habitat where they …

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Andean mountain cat diverged from a common ancestor with the ocelot

Andean mountain cat and the Andes

The Andean mountain cat looks like a grey tabby domestic cat with strong markings but is distinctly wild and is a member of a group of small wild cats comprising the ocelot, margay, pampas cat, oncilla, Geoffroy’s cat and the kodkod, all under the umbrella of the ‘ocelot lineage’. An in-depth study of molecular …

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Andean mountain cat ecology and behavior

Andean mountain cat

This small wild cat species, which looks like a domestic cat, lives in high, rocky, treeless areas in the Andes feeding on viscachas (rodents that look like rabbits). Specimens in museums were taken from elevations above 3,000 metres. And a specimen from Peru was captured at an elevation of 5,100 m. The landscape was …

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