Its fur is uniquely spotted and striped, and its silent movement resembles a shadow in the thicket: The ocelot is one of the ...

Ocelots, native to the southwestern US, are considered "critically imperiled" in their remaining US habitats due to threats like habitat loss and poaching.

Ocelots roamed the southwestern U.S. in the 1800s, but have since dwindled to fewer than 100 in two small breeding populations in South Texas. ... You're in incognito mode!

Like that species, she said, which the U.S. restored to its native Wyoming habitat in the 1990s, ocelots and jaguars have a natural place in the American West. “They deserve to stay,” she said.

Still, the ocelot’s presence underscores the importance of the Rosemont area’s wildlife habitat, environmentalists say, particularly because an endangered jaguar has also been photographed nearby.

With a flourish of spotted brown and black fur, the Buffalo Zoo introduced its playful new baby Brazilian ocelot to the public Sunday, announcing the new cat's name would be Nico. The little male ...

Ocelots in Texas are threatened by habitat loss, predation, hunting, trapping, disease and wildfires, and also face low genetic diversity due to inbreeding and the risk of being struck by vehicles ...

Ocelots in the United States once roamed in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Arizona, but over a century of hunting, trapping, poisoning and habitat loss have greatly reduced their range and ...

The distance also shows either location — east or west of I-19 — could serve as an ocelot habitat. “It’s a really intrepid cat that would make such an effort,” he said.

Ocelots are a quintessentially American cat—yet a single tropical storm could wipe them off the U.S. map. Will a pioneering new partnership make a difference?

Ocelots have been endangered in the US since 1972 and are only intermittently recorded in Arizona, according to zoo officials. Major threats to their survival include habitat fragmentation and ...

Once ocelot, dubbed ocelot #4, has been spotted 44 times since 2012. During a pilot study in the Atascosa Highlands in 2023, which used 30 cameras, scientists did not capture footage of any ...