Northern Colocolo

Garlepp's pampas cat, Leopardus garleppi, is also known as the northern pampas cat. It is a small wild cat with a brownish-grey forehead, orange speckles on the nape and crown, and a dark brownish-grey stripe along the spine with some orange hairs. Its body colour is pale brownish-grey or yellowish-brown, with obvious reddish-brown rosettes that have orange-brown centres, and its tail has reddish-brown rings (Wikipedia, general species account).

It was long treated as a subspecies of the pampas cat, Leopardus colocola garleppi, and has more recently been classed as a full species within a pampas cat species complex (Wikipedia, general species account; Plazi treatment, Nascimento 2021).