This Tiny Wildcat Was Mistaken for a House Cat and Turned Out to Be the First New Cat Species in More Than 100 Years

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For the first time in a century, a new species of cat has been discovered

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The animal barely 46 centimetres long triggered a real craze on social networks.

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The animal is baptized as a cat-of-the-mouse, but it continues surrounded by mysteries. It is the first feline discovered since the cat-of-pampa, in 1923.

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They discover another possible cat tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo), in the hands of a family in Rurrenabaque, Beni. The finding occurs a few days after the experts registered the cat as the first species of wild cat found in more than 100 years.