A slender cat with a long tail and coat colors ranging from gray to reddish tones.
It has a long narrow head, a low slender body, short legs, and a long tail. Its coat may be gray, brownish black, or yellowish red, and is usually unspotted.
In northern Misiones, Argentina, cameras surveyed small cats from May 2013 to December 2014 across continuous forest, forest fragments and pine plantations. The survey logged 4,923 mammal records, including 14 jaguarundis. Six jaguarundi records came from continuous forest and eight from forest fragments; none came from the pine plantations during this survey.
The cameras covered 53 stations in continuous forest, 69 in forest fragments and 62 in pine plantations. Jaguarundis had 55 activity records at sites with low human cost of access and 32 at sites with high human cost of access. Across 155 independent activity records, their activity pattern did not differ significantly between the two access-cost groups (p=0.63). Jaguarundis also had the lowest temporal overlap with margays and ocelots among the compared cats.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The authors conclude that conserving Atlantic Forest cats requires planning and management of human land uses as well as large protected areas.