#herpailurus yagouaroundi

[1wildcataday]

day fifteen: jaguarundi (kitten)

#1wildcataday #1 wild cat a day #one wild cat a day #art #cat #cats #wild cat #wild cats #jaguarundi #jaguarundi cat #Herpailurus yagouaroundi #03/07/22 #030722

[thecreatureawaits]

Creature Awaits #181

Each week I plan to feature an amazing creature, admiring God's fantastic artistry.  Hopefully it’ll brighten someone’s day to see something new and interesting if they haven’t seen it before. : )

Continuing our November Fall Color Special! : D

(Top photograph taken by the amazing photographer who goes by the name Tambako the Jaguar (CC BY-ND 2.0). Bottom photograph taken by another amazing photographer, Fábio Manfredini (CC BY 2.0))

The Jaguarundi

A.K.A: The Gato Moro, the Leoncillo, the Tigrillo, the Eyra

Scientific Name: Herpailurus yagouaroundi

Region: Southern Mexico and much of South America

Size: Averaging roughly 12" (30.5cm) tall at the shoulder and 44" (112cm) long.

Interesting Notes:  With its shorter legs, slightly flatter head shape and minimal marking variance (even on the back of their relatively rounded ears), this unique feline almost resembles more of a cat mixed with an otter or weasel than a true cat.  Their coloration ranges from blackish-brown to rusty red, with kittens of darker tones tending to be born in rain forests and kittens of lighter tones in drier regions.

#creatureawaits #Jaguarundi #Gato Moro #Leoncillo #Tigrillo #Eyra #beautiful cats #wild cats #unique cats #South American wildlife #Mexican wildlife #Herpailurus yagouaroundi

[podartists]

The Eyra (Felis eyra) | Joseph Wolf | Zoological sketches v.1 (1861) | Biodiversity Heritage Library | Flickr | Public domain

#jaguarundi #herpailurus yagouaroundi #felidae #joseph wolf

[mirtadraws]

Inktober #9 - jaguarundi

I'm drawing cat species this Inktober! Which one would you like to see next?

#jaguarundi #herpailurus yagouaroundi #inktober #inktober 2023

[shopcat]

albino jaguarundi cub looks like a weasels ... where are you going silly weasels

#what a little FREAK!!!! #🐾 #🐯 #jaguarundi (herpailurus yagouaroundi) #felid #colour mutation #albinism #juvenile

[mammalianmammals]

Jaguarundis (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), family Felidae, found widely across the Americas, from far South TX and SE Arizona, through Mexico, Central America, and much of South America

This cat is very secretive and elusive, and rarely seen.

While working in Ecuador, with the Quichua people, I was told that they use magical portals at the base of Kapok trees to travel from one tree to another... or to the other side.

photograph by @lucas.18photos

#jaguarundi #cats #herpailurus #felidae #felinae #mammal #north america #animals #nature #central america #south america #mexico

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi)

kingdomoffunnymemes.com

#kingdomoffunnymemes.com #photographer #jaguarundi #herpailurus yagoaroundi #cat #animal #mammal #wildlife #nature

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Phylogenetic wild cat tournament

Puma lineage

Genus: Herpailurus & Puma

Depth: 8 (7 wins away from championship)

The puma lineage consists three very different species: the jaguarundi, a small, weasely little beast of many colors, the cougar or "mountain lion", the biggest "small cat", and the cheetah, who will face the winner of this poll in the next round.

Despite two of the three species living in America, the cats of the puma lineage are genetically more similar to old world felines: Prionailurus, Otocolubus and Felis.

Jaguarundi

Puma

#polls #cats #tournament poll #phylogenetic wild cat tournament #puma lineage #jaguarundi #cougar #puma

[little-cat-showdown]

[ID: a photo of an Andean mountain cat and a photo of a jagarundi. the Andean mountain cat is a small yellow cat with a spotted coat. the jagarundi is a medium cat with a dark gray cat. it has small eyes and small ears. end ID]

#little cat showdown poll #andean mountain cat #jagarundi

[ravenarisart]

Jaguarundi // Herpailurus yagouaroundi

Traditional art - coloured pencil, watercolour pencil, ink, metallic paint, illustration board.

#jaguarundi #wild cat #cat art #artists on tumblr #natural history illustration

[jossujb]

Herpailurus yagouaroundi

#nonsense #art by jossu

[1wildcataday]

day sixty-five: jaguarundi

#1wildcataday #1 wild cat a day #one wild cat a day #art #cat #cats #wild cat #wild cats #jaguarundi #jaguarundi cat #Herpailurus yagouaroundi #22/08/22 #220822

[typhlonectes]

Is the Jaguarundi Extinct in the United States?

These weasel-like small cats haven’t been documented in the country since 1986. A new study suggests it’s time to reintroduce them.

The elusive, secretive Jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) is a small, bizarre-looking feline species, not much bigger than a house cat, with weasel-like features, short legs, and an extremely long tail. Native to South and Central America, its range once extended to the southern tip of Texas, but it hasn’t been officially observed in the Lone Star State since 1986. The last one we know of was killed that year by the world’s most fearsome predator: a car.

Texas wildlife officials still dutifully investigate every sighting, and to date they’ve debunked every one of them. The “jaguarundis” people think they saw, biologists explain, were simply house cats or other wild felids — or sometimes just squirrels — out stalking in the dark.

That hasn’t stopped people stopped looking for the jaguarundi in Texas or hoping to spot one. In fact, one group of scientists just finished an exhaustive, decades-long study seeking evidence of the species’ persistence at the northernmost edges of its range, which also extends south all the way to Argentina...

Read more: https://therevelator.org/jaguarundi/

photograph by © giana521 via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC)

#endangered #extinct #texas #north america #jaguarundi #cat #cats #felid #mammal #animals #nature #conservation #environment

[the-stray-liger]

Back when my self esteem was normal I used to think that my dæmon would be a jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi)

What do you think y'all's dæmons would look like

[ambientalmercantil]

#BIODIVERSIDADE #GESTÃOAMBIENTAL #GESTÃOESG #PROTEÇÃOAOSANIMAIS

[reportwire]

Is the Jaguarundi Extinct in the United States?

Is the Jaguarundi Extinct in the United States?

2022-09-06 04:00:51 A few times a year, wildlife officials in Texas receive excited phone calls. “I just saw something that looks like a really big cat, or maybe a giant weasel,” a caller might say. “Was it a jaguarundi?” No, they’re not reporting a sighting of a mythical beast like the chupacabra. But they might as well be. The elusive, secretive jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) is a…

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