Exempel på ocelot

• The ocelot may constitute a good model to understand what factors affect the abundance of neotropical cats.

• If this is the case, we predict a negative correlation between the abundance of the smaller cats with that of the ocelot.

• Several authors have noted that ocelots occupy a wide diversity of habitat types, ranging from scrublands to tropical rain forests.

• Thus, we expect to find a positive relationship between primary productivity and ocelot density across its distributional range.

• The ocelot may thus play a key ecological role as a top-down regulating force in the neotropical forests.

• Thus, both logging and poaching may be contributing to the patterns of ocelot abundance observed, but their relative contribution still needs to be assessed.

• We found that ocelot densities increase with rainfall and decrease with the latitude of the study site.

• At a continental scale, ocelot densities decrease with latitude and increase with rainfall.

• These patterns suggest that habitat disturbance in the form of intense logging or partial habitat conversion may have a stronger effect on ocelot abundance than poaching.

• Several lines of evidence suggest that changes in the structure of the forests associated with logging activities and partial habitat replacement, independently of poaching, negatively affect the abundance of ocelots.

• Maffei et al. (2005) first suggested that ocelot densities are positively correlated with mean annual rainfall, but the few data points available did not render a statistically significant result.

• In the first 10 months of 1975 more than 27,000 ocelot skins were imported into this country.

• Though he has shown great affection towards large felines, such as ocelots and tigers, he fears large reptiles, in particular alligators and crocodiles.

• Compared with other small cats, ocelot kittens grow quite slowly.

• Six feline species including the jaguar and ocelot are found here, as well as two species of deer and the peccary.