# Bolivia’s Tilcayo leopard is first new cat species identified in over a century

https://mins.news/en/video/65733

- The Associated Press, 2026-09-19 18:38 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qU43pSf7qc

> Scientists have identified a previously unknown small, spotted cat at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where a local family had cared for it for years. The discovery, reported in Current Biology, is the first naming and description of a new living wild cat species in more than a century.

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