Gato Montes Cat Skull Replica measures 3.1 inches. Gato Montes Cat Skull replica is museum quality polyurethane cast made in USA. Our precise skull can be used for museum skull exhibits, home decor skull or office decor skull.
Gato Montes Cat or Leopardus geoffroyi is a small wild cat native to the southern and central regions of South America.
The Gato Montes Cat or Leopardus geoffroyi is about the size of a domestic cat, but has numerous black spots and dark bands on the cheeks, head and neck as well as on the tail and limbs.
The background color of its fur varies from a brownish-yellow coat in the northern part of its range to a more grayish coat in the south. The underbelly hair is cream-colored or even white. The backs of the ears are black with white spots. Black individuals are common.
Its size is about 24 in. in head and body with a relatively short tail of about 12 in. It weighs between 4.4 and 11.0 lb., though individuals up to 17 lb. have been reported.
The Gato Montes Cat is a rugged feline. It has survived in some of the most formidable terrains.
At 10,000 feet on the Antiplano in Bolivia, a barren windswept plateau of salt flats to the vast central lowland area along the eastern slope of the Andes of northwest Argentina.
It can survive and thrive in the hottest temperatures in all South America. The Gato Montes cat is the only shorthaired cat that can thrive so far from the equator.
From the heat of to powerful cold winds and never ending dry prairies with continuous dust storms in the Patagonia area of southern Argentina a vast, sparse region inhabited by hardy Aboriginal Indians, Gato Montes Cat or Geoffroy’s cat survies.
It prefers open woodland or scrubland with plenty of cover, but also occurs in grasslands and marshy areas. It is thought to be rare in Chile.
Males are usually larger than females, and Geoffroys cat in the south are larger than those from the north. It has a bite force quotient at the canine tip of 106.3.
