Kitten Found on the Street Turns Out to Be a 'New Species of Wild Cat' Discovered After 100 Years

🎉Congrats on discovering a new cat species! In 2016, a kitten was found in a rural area of Bolivia. A passerby found the kitten, thinking it was a stray domestic cat, and began to care for it diligently. However, as time went by, the kitten showed a fierce wild nature instead of becoming tamer. Eventually, the owner, after much deliberation, sent the kitten to a wildlife sanctuary. Paola Nogales Ascarrunz, a biologist from Bolivia, analyzed the kitten's genes, noting its much smaller size compared to a domestic cat, its cute, squashed face, and the large leopard-like spots covering its entire body. She discovered an astonishing fact: it wasn't just a variant, but a new species of wild cat discovered for the first time in 100 years, since the Pampas cat in 1923. It was given the scientific name ‘Leopardus tilcayo’, named after the name local residents called it. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdZI_E3gMqg/?stkn=ZTNjamZmODg5MjBl