Espécies de gatos do mato ameaçadas de extinção no Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The work presents a bibliography search about the wildcats endangered species in Rio Grande do Sul, as big wildcat ((Oncifelis geoffroyi), small wild cat (Leopardus tigrinus), cat maracajá (Leopardus wiedii), cat mourisco (Herpailurus yaguarondi), jaguatirica (Leopardus pardalis) and cat palheiro in some places acquaintance as cat from pampas, (Oncifelis colocolo). The extinction is one of the great challenges to mankind in century XXI. This problem emerged of the great negative impacts that the human population caused the biologicy several, elevating the excise of extinction never registered in history of line on earth. The extinction have a natural way, in all around the world, many species enter in extinction process. Every day, but those process are natural of proper species evolution.