Margays at least tend to be nocturnal. Other websites say that they are nocturnal. My reference book on the topic1 tells me that margays in Belize are strictly nocturnal as per radio tracking by a scientist in 1995. The study found that the margay was most active between 1 AM and 5 AM in the …
Are margays: – nocturnal, ocelots, omnivores, apex predators and mammals? Read More »
Yes and No is the answer. I am, conveniently, going to answer the question as best I can with reference to a currently popular Amazon Prime film called ‘Wildcat’. It tells the story of a young British military veteran who was medically discharged with PTSD. He was depressed and couldn’t shake it off. I’ve not …
The wild cat news today is that the world’s first albino ocelot has been discovered in Colombia. And the news is not good because the discovery indicates that deforestation in Colombia is resulting in inbreeding of wild cat species because of fragmented habitat resulting in small population sizes. This assessment is made because albinism a.k.a. …
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Here are 18 facts about the hunting technique and behaviour of the ocelot. I start with some background information to set the scene and the facts are presented in bullet fashion. The ocelot, throughout a large part of its territory (home range), shares its territory with the jaguar, puma, margay, jaguarundi and oncilla. The presence …
There is one species of wild cat on Trinidad and Tobago and that species is the ocelot. This is confirmed by the geographic range of this well-known wild cat species as presented by the IUCN Red List. The people who run the Red List are the people who should know best as to whether an …
As the ocelot is a medium-sized cat, roughly the size of a bobcat they are not considered to be big cats. The phrase “big cats” refers to either cats that are big and/or a group of cats that roar and which, incidentally, are also big. This group of roaring cats is the leopard, lion, tiger …
Miss Frances Simpson was one of three major personalities in the early years of the cat fancy in England. She wrote a book called The Book of the Cat which was published in 1903. In that book she refers to the first American cat show held in the Madison Square Garden, New York, on 8 …
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Ocelots mainly eat mammals such as opossums, rabbits, rats and mice. They also eat land crabs, insects, lizards, snakes, fish and birds. Although their feeding habits change with the seasons, due to the fluctuation in the population size of prey animals, most of their prey is both nocturnal and terrestrial (living on the ground). Also, …
The news surrounding Trump’s great wall has subsided but its construction is still on the table and it is still a danger to wildlife conservation and in particular for the ocelot. This beautiful but endangered small wild cat species has been documented as living in Arizona since the 19th century but they were heavily persecuted …
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CLICK TO READ ABOUT THE OCELOT Please be patient while the video loads and becomes playable. It is worth the wait. It is charming to see the rare ocelot playing with a dog companion at a rescue center in Peru. The ocelot is relatively rare in the wild these days although the IUCN Red List …
There are three American stories of cute wild kittens today which provide us with some cute pictures from three different small-to-medium sized wild cat species. Cincinnati From Cincinnati Zoo we have some super looking ocelot kittens. They were created through frozen semen and artificial insemination. Five kittens were born in March of which three survived. …
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Today in February 2019, online news media is chattering excitedly about a video from a camera trap of a wild ocelot meandering through the Arizona wilds. He looks very lonely; he should be because they are extremely rare. In fact the video that you see is the first ever publicly released trail camera video of …
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Against a promise to stop facilitating the trade in body parts of tigers, leopards and other endangered big cats, eBay and Facebook are selling these commercial ‘products’ illegally. The Times newspaper’s investigation found that sellers are offering products such as handbags for up to £5000 each. These products have been made from the skins of …
We don’t know when ocelots were discovered because it happened at a time before science and record keeping was developed and the classification of the species had taken place. You’d have to go back perhaps hundreds of thousands of years to find the moment when a human first saw an ocelot and killed it no …
There are only about 60 ocelots left in the USA. They were nearly all killed for their exotic coat. Remember those days of exotic fur coats? Well they were often the product of hundreds of thousands of dead ocelots. Sad. Now we are playing catch up and it is almost impossible to protect this medium …
