Spatial ecology of the Geoffroy´s cat in the Pampas

LUCHERINI, MAURO; MANFREDI, CLAUDIA; SOLER, LUCIA; LUENGOS VIDAL, ESTELA; CASTILLO, DIEGO; CASANAVE, EMMA

Cat News

IUCN, CAT SPECIALIST GROUP

Lugar: Bougy ; Año: 2005 p. 27 - 28

1027-2992

The Geoffroy?s cat (Oncifelis geoffroyi) is a small-sized felid found from sea level up to 3.300 m of altitude in the Andes and from southern Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, the south of Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to southern Patagonia and Chile (Sunquist & Sunquist, 2002). It has been recently updated to the Near Threatened category (Nowell, 2002), because of lack of knowledge and concerns for the impact of human-related habitat changes upon its populations. In Argentina, in the last decade cat research has received increasing attention (Lucherini et al., 2004), but the only published information on the spatial behaviour of this cat comes from the southernmost portion of its distribution in Chile (Johnson & Franklin, 1991).