Leopardus tilcayo, commonly called the tilcayo, is a newly identified species of wild cat found in Bolivia's Yungas forest, a mountainous cloud-forest region. Its identification marked the first time in more than a century that a new living feline species had been formally named and described.
News of the discovery quickly spread across social media, where users reacted with excitement and repeatedly used the catchphrase new cat dropped in posts celebrating the newly identified species.