0 a small wild cat that has yellow fur with black spots and lives in South America and Central America --
Six feline species including the jaguar and ocelot are found here, as well as two species of deer and the peccary.
Compared with other small cats, ocelot kittens grow quite slowly.
Though he has shown great affection towards large felines, such as ocelots and tigers, he fears large reptiles, in particular alligators and crocodiles.
In the first 10 months of 1975 more than 27,000 ocelot skins were imported into this country.
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.
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.
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.
At a continental scale, ocelot densities decrease with latitude and increase with rainfall.
