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Ocelot

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Ocelot - predatory mammal of the cat family that lives in America.
This animal looks like an ordinary house cat. However, the ocelot has a number of characteristics. First of all, it is a yellowish-brown color of its fur smooth, decorated with black spots ringed. On paws ocelot spots turn into black spots, and you can see the distinctive black stripes on the head and neck.
Ocelot length from head to tail is from 100 to 140 cm, height - 50 cm, weight: - from 10 to 16 kg. coat color - yellowish-brown with a black ring-shaped spots, fur inside the rings slightly darker than around them. On the neck and around the shoulders spots turn into bands on the feet - in point. The belly and chin are white. The ears are black with large white dots on the back side.

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Like all cats, the ocelot is active at night. At this time, the animal preys on small rodents, lizards, turtles, frogs and birds. Can catch and eat fish and crabs. This nocturnal predator feeds mainly on rabbits and possums. Close Ocelot is sometimes possible to catch a wild pig or a small donkey.
During the 1960s species suffered from the illegal fur trade, while imports ocelot skins to the United States amounted to about 140,000 in 1970. Most skins were exported from Paraguay and Brazil.
Therefore animal as a species, threatened with extinction. Since 1996, the international environmental organization took the representative of the cat family under the protection of, and all nine subspecies of ocelot safely escaped the sad fate of endangered species. Hunting is completely banned in most countries, regulated hunting is allowed in Honduras and Ecuador, Guyana and El Salvador Ocelot not protected from hunting.
These animals prefer a solitary life and is so jealously guarding their territory against intruders, they can even die during the fight. Only during mating, which may occur at any time of the year, let ocelot in their possession a representative of the opposite sex. In the daytime, the ocelot and the rest more comfortable with the aliens on their territory.
The female alone cares for the kittens, which in contrast to the rest of the cat grow very slowly. Cubs stay with their mother for two years, and then sent to conquer their own space.
Ocelots sometimes contain as a pet. Among the owners of these exotic cats can be called painter Salvador Dalí and musician Gram Parsons.
In captivity, this wild cat can live up to twenty years.

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