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Tilcayo

Tilcayo

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Oct 10, 2026

Caroline KnightHOST
76:33
So naturally they are nocturnal predators and they're adapted to life in the high-altitude tropical forest roughly 1,500 metres above sea level.
Caroline KnightHOST
76:43
So what they did is instead of, you know, the researchers who eventually did research on him, instead of calling him a typical Latinized name, they called him the Tilcayo directly from the indigenous communities of the Bolivian Andes.
Caroline KnightHOST
77:02
And yes, so now...
Caroline KnightHOST
77:07
We want to talk a little bit about the environment where the Tilkaya cat lives because I think that it's pretty interesting.
Ryan GecknerHOST
5:42
This is a cool one.
Kris DalyHOST
5:42
So the Telcayo tiger cat, or Leopardus telcayo, found in the Bolivian cloud fra- cloud forest region, which is, it's kind of where the Andes meet the Amazon basin, and it was originally mistaken for a kitten.
Ryan GecknerHOST
5:58
Yeah, the story is awesome.
Kris DalyHOST
5:59
This is great.
Adam BuxtonHOST
80:44
If you're interested in watching it, it's on YouTube.
Adam BuxtonHOST
80:47
There's a link to an article on the Smithsonian online magazine about that cat, the new cat that Dylan mentioned, which is called the Tilkayo cat that looks like a miniature tiger.
Adam BuxtonHOST
81:00
There's a link to the video for The Look by Metronomy, which you heard a short clip of in there, directed by Lorenzo Fonda from back in 2011.
Adam BuxtonHOST
81:11
And I've also put links to that remix of I Can't Go For That by Hall & Oates, the POMO remix.
Nancy SunHOST
4:32
These forests are full of big trees covered in moss.
Nancy SunHOST
4:36
And hidden in one of these forests, leopard is Tilkayo, a small wild cat.
Nancy SunHOST
4:43
It's the first new wild cat species in more than 100 years.
Nancy SunHOST
4:47
这是一百多年以来第一次正式确认并命名全新野生猫科物种。 What does it look like?

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