The fearsome Ocelot
Ocelots range in color from light yellow to reddish gray, with dark spots and stripes. They have dark stripes on their cheeks and their tailed have rings of dark fur.
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Diet
Ocelots are carnivores, they hunt and eat animals such as rodents, rabbits, young deer, birds, snakes and fish.
Population
An estimated 800,000 to 1.5 million are found worldwide. In the U.S., just 30 ocelots remain in an isolated population in southeast Texas.
Did You Know?
In captivity, ocelots can live 20 years while in the wild they live 7 - 10 years
Range
Once ranging as far east as Arkansas and Louisiana, throughout Texas and in Mexico, ocelots are currently found only in extreme southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. They are also found in every country south of the United States except Chile.
Threats to Ocelots
Habitat loss due to agriculture, hunting for their fur, pet trade.
Fun fact
They named him Babou in reference to Salvador Dali's ocelot, also named Babou
After the Jaguar, my favorite cat!
yaa you are right.. mine also I love Jaguar.
So beautiful! Why is it fearsome? Seems like it has more to fear than be feared.
It might be
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STOPThank you for sharing. I like your post good luck always @piyushkansal
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He looks like a little bit resentful))
may be he is resentful.
Thank you for your post.
Very beautiful animal... Thanks for sharing....