Fig. 1. Location of the study area in South America and the State of Rio Grande do Sul (left panel), with the indication of the geographic range of Leopardus guttulus (Hensel, 1872) (grey area) in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina (above), and the Biological Reserve Lami JosÉ Lutzenberger – BRLJL in the municipality of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (below). On the right panel, a detailed map of the study area showing the limits of the BRLJL (black line), the vegetation types occurring in the area, the grid sQuares of 1 x 1 km (grey lines) designed to delimitate the zones where sampling stations (camera stations) were installed (black triangles).