{"id":881696,"date":"2026-10-14T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881696\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:24:09","slug":"have-you-seen-this-new-cat-species-found-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/881696\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen This? New cat species found in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YUNGAS, Bolivia \u2014 Calling all cat lovers and friends of felines. You may have heard \u2014 a new species of wild cat was discovered in Bolivia last month.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-September, the tilcayo, a small spotted wild cat, was found living in a wildlife sanctuary in the Bolivian Yungas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ksl-article-content\">\n<p>According to the Associated Press, this specific tilcayo, found in Cotapata National Park, was taken in by a local family and had been living with them for years. Imagine taking in a stray only to find out years later that it&#8217;s unknown to science.<\/p>\n<p>This kitty has captured hearts and inspired curiosity around the world. I have to agree with National Geographic biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz: With so much doom and gloom to be found, I&#8217;ll take a new species of wild cat. Even in 2026, there is still wonder to be found in this world.<\/p>\n<p>Have You Seen This?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YUNGAS, Bolivia \u2014 Calling all cat lovers and friends of felines. You may have heard \u2014 a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1302,3811,3812,134,3729,3,3813,3814,79,99,1505,2987,3324,2986,201],"class_list":["post-881696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}