From the archives: This story was last updated in January 2020.
For Argentinian college student Florencia Lobo, a fishing trip to the Northwest Province of Tucuman ended up being a lot more than a relaxing day in nature. After finding two kittens next to a dead animal, she brought the strays back home with her and reared them as her own.Only one of them, named Tito, survived, but when she took him to the vet for a slightly injured leg, the diagnosis wasn’t what she was expecting. “The veterinarian did not even know what it was,” she told regional newspaper El Tucumano. “He suspected it was not a normal cat.” Eventually, the baffled vet contacted the staff at Horco Molle Experimental Animal Reserve, who were able to positively identify the little kitten as a kind of puma, known as jaguarundi.
