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A tiny wild cat that lives in Bolivia’s lush cloud forests has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time in more than a century that a new living feline species has been formally named and described.
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species → live → century
Called “tilcayo” by local communities, the cat is part of a group called tiger cats, which are found across much of South America.
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which → call → America
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It was discovered in the Yungas forest, a mountainous region where forests are often covered by clouds and surrounded by high humidity, according to the researchers.
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forests → end → researchers
Given the scientific name Leopardus tilcayo, the cat measures 46cm (18 inches) long and weighs about 1.4kg (3 pounds), making it smaller than an average domestic cat.
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it → give → cat
“Its fur is light brown … with irregularly shaped rosettes across its body,” according to Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a National Geographic Explorer and one of the authors of the study describing the newly identified species published on Thursday in the journal Current Biology.
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fur → shape → journal
Little is known about the cat’s biology and lifestyle.
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Little → know → biology
Remains of small rodents in scat samples suggest they may form part of its diet, while camera-trap evidence indicates it could be more active at night, Nogales-Ascarrunz said.
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Ascarrunz → suggest → night
Tiger cats are so-called cryptic species, meaning they cannot easily be distinguished merely by appearance, evolutionary biologist and study co-lead author Jonas Lescroart of the University of Antwerp in Belgium said.
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Lescroart → call → Belgium
Observing the Bolivian cat drew interest because “its characteristics did not match the descriptions, most of them based on Brazilian cats”, Nogales-Ascarrunz said.
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Ascarrunz → observe → cats
“This made us wonder, what tiger cat do we actually have in Bolivia?
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we → make → Bolivia
The team analysed DNA from 38 cats sampled across several South American countries, including eight museum specimens.
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team → analyse → specimens
The study found that tiger cats are in fact five genetically distinct species.
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cats → find → fact
“We never expected this Bolivian tiger cat to be a separate species, and no one had ever proposed it as a different animal, subspecies or otherwise,” Jonas Lescroart said.
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Lescroart → expect → animal
Genetic analysis suggested that the tilcayo lineage separated from other tiger cats about 1.4 million years ago.
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lineage → suggest → cats
The research team also described a new tiger cat subspecies in Peru’s Yungas, naming it Leopardus tigrinus antisuyo, after Antisuyu, the region of the old Inca Empire that included the area it inhabits.
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it → describe → area
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