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Re:The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years by locallost on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:33AM (#49764245)
What do you mean it's the only one known? It got the name because locals called it that way. Locals will not call things they don't normally see.
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Re:The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years by Nursie on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:38AM (#49764274)
Yeah it’s not the only one known.

Unfortunately while people are going wild as if someone found a never-before-seen cat, this is actually more “after genetic analysis we now know that the tiger cats that everyone already knew about in Bolivia are actually a different species to the ones in Brazil”.

But that’s not very exciting so people and news outlets seem to be running with the story as if nobody had ever seen one before.

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Re:The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years by pvaldes on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:55AM (#49786698)
Locals are not trained zoologists, I suppose.

There are almost identical animals from different species in the area. The scientific term is an species complex.

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