MICROVERTEBRADOS DEPREDADOS POR Leopardus pajeros (CARNIVORA: FELIDAE) EN EL SUR DE LA PROVINCIA DE MENDOZA, ARGENTINA.

The article presents a study which determines the microvertebrates preyed upon by the pampas cat or Leopardus pajeros, a small South American felid with a broad geographic distribution, in southern Mendoza Province, Argentina. The study includes the assignment of feces to felid species by bile-acid analysis. Result of the study reveals that Pampas cat or Leopardus pajeros cat preyed upon lizards, birds, and rodents, which majority represented by cricetids, followed in importance by tuco-tucos or Ctenomys.