World Geoffroy’s Cat Day – January 28, 2023
World Geoffroy’s Cat Day
Geoffroy’s Cat (Leopardus geoffroyi)
- one of the smallest of all wildcats.
- has a uniformly patterned coat of small black spots of nearly equal size and spacing.
- lives in an extensive range includes parts of the countries of Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
- lives in a wide variety of habitats, from the pampas grasslands and arid Chaco shrub and woodlands, up to alpine saline deserts.
- is a primarily nocturnal species.
- lives a solitary life.
- has its own specific territorial range.
- prefers to live and hunt on the ground.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata (Vertebrata)
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Felinae (Oncifelis)
Species: geoffroyi
