The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, with the assistance of other zoos, is implemented an ambitious recovery program for wild ocelots in Texas, the zoo announced Wednesday.“SAFE Ocelot will provide ...
KINGSVILLE — Wildlife researchers and members of Texas A&M University-Kingsville gathered on Wednesday at the Tio and Janell Kleberg Wildlife Research Park to break ground on a new wildlife research ...
Jul. 11—The dappled cats which have captured the hearts of so many Texans continue to hold their own, often against the odds, in their South Texas strongholds. At Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife ...
The project aims to rescue and care for these felines and return them to the wild, as well as to study their lineage and ...
Geneticists at the Yagul Jaguar Sanctuary in Oaxaca hope the recent birth in captivity of a baby jaguar is key to protecting ...
While ocelots are widespread in South and Central America, in the United States they are on the brink of extinction. They were once overhunted for their coats, and now they face shrinking habitats.
The ghost cat pads through the brush on silent, velvety paws. Creeping nimbly under low-lying branches, it uses highly evolved night vision to zero in on prey. A sudden flash of golden brown eyes is ...
The Texas population of ocelots — with an estimated population of around 120 individuals — is threatened by a host of challenges, including habitat loss, predation, hunting, trapping, disease, ...
NOGALES, Ariz. (KVOA) – Scientists of the Arizona Center for Nature Conservation and Phoenix Zoo captured video of an ocelot in Southern Arizona, specifically the Atascosa Highlands region, saying ...
Visitors to the Los Angeles Zoo will soon have the chance to catch a glimpse of a new ocelot kitten, which zoo officials said is almost big enough to enter the animal’s public habitat. Zoo officials ...
An ocelot rests on a rock in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, in 2007. Only seven ocelots, including the one just spotted, have been seen in the state in the last two decades. Arterra / Getty Images A ...
PHOENIX - An ocelot has been spotted on camera in a southern Arizona region for the first time in 50 years. Researchers with the Phoenix Zoo and Arizona Center for Nature Conservation released video ...