Die neue Katzenart wurde eigentlich schon vor 10 Jahren von einem Mann in Bolivien durch das CDS "gefunden". Dieser hatte eine kleine Katze auf der Straße entdeckt und in dem Glauben, dass es eine Hauskatzenart sei, mit nach Hause genommen. Nachdem er jedoch ungefähr ein Jahr mit der deutlich wilden Katze zusammen gewohnt hatte, ist ihm klargeworden, dass sie in einer Wildtierstation besser aufgehoben wäre. Diese Station hat sich dann an eine Biologin gewandt, weil sie eine "merkwürdige Katze" bekommen hätten.

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In 2016, Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a biologist and National Geographic Explorer working in Bolivia, received a call from a local wildlife sanctuary that had just been given what they described as “a weird cat.” It came from a local man who found it as a kitten on a road near a forest. The man took the animal home, believing it to be a domestic breed. But after about a year of living with the clearly wild animal, he realized it would be better off at a sanctuary.

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En suma: el gato era conocido desde el 2016, pero entonces no se sabía que realmente era una especie no descubierta de gato. Fue encontrado de cachorro por un individuo local pero con el tiempo al criarlo se dio cuenta que necesitaba ser transferido a un refugio.

El gato es Boliviano, por tanto no puede tocar el agua.

Esta sería la primera especie de felino descubierta en como un siglo.

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In 2016, Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a biologist and National Geographic Explorer working in Bolivia, received a call from a local wildlife sanctuary that had just been given what they described as “a weird cat.” It came from a local man who found it as a kitten on a road near a forest. The man took the animal home, believing it to be a domestic breed. But after about a year of living with the clearly wild animal, he realized it would be better off at a sanctuary.

As the lead scientist and founder of the Bolivian Felids Research Program (Programa de Investigación de Félidos Bolivia), Nogales-Ascarrunz was intrigued. The animal had a small, scrunched-up face, short and round ears, and long whiskers. It was, indeed, too small to be a housecat, and, most notably, it was covered in leopard-like spots. So she went to visit the creature at the Senda Verde wildlife sanctuary on the subtropical flank of the Bolivian Andes.

“I took a hundred pictures of it,” remembers Nogales-Ascarrunz. “I was so fascinated.”

What she couldn’t know at the time was that this curious cat had a secret. It would become the first new species of felid (i.e. the cat family) discovered in over 100 years, according to a study published today in the journal Current Biology. What’s exciting is the discovery is not a validation of a species proposed in the distant past, nor a previously recognized subspecies raised to species status—which are both more commonly reported and important findings. No, this cat was something totally new to science.