The Brazilian pampas cat is a small wild cat with dark spots and stripes on a tawny coat. It hunts small prey in grasslands and scrub.
Its tawny coat has rows of dark spots, with dark bands on the legs and tail and dark lines on the cheeks.
It hunts mainly small mammals and ground-dwelling birds in open grassland and scrub; reptiles such as lizards are also prey.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.