The ocelot
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The ocelots have a peeling close-cropped, marked round dark tasks and forming dark bands which are aligned all the way along body. The tail is ringed of black or has black bars with the higher face.
The resemblance to the margay is striking and it is quite difficult to distinguish them. The ocelots are generally larger than the margays, their tail being shorter and their eyes slightly smaller.
CUT
The ocelots are the felids of intermediate size reaching approximately 2 times that of the margay. The males roughly measure 85 cm to 100 cm with a tail of 30 cm to 41 cm and weigh of 9 kg to 13 kg the females, a little smaller, measure of 56 cm to 82 cm with a tail of 26 cm to 38 cm for a weight varying from 7 kg to 10 kg.
DIET
Its food mode is composed of hares, mouse, monkeys and birds. In fact the ocelot eats all that it can kill. If it spends much time in the trees, it however drives out always on the ground going slightly on the toes. The small preys are devoured by the head, but the largest preys are attacked by a softer part.
HUNTING
The sense of smell of the ocelot is very developed, but it counts of advantage on hearing and the sight to find its preys in its night forwardings. The small felids ones have a hearing more developed than the large felids ones.
The moustache also plays a big role in hunting. They are so sensitive that they make it possible felin to move in reduced spaces.
When it located a prey, the ocelot is flattened on the belly. It crawls initially patiently then precipitates ahead and continues its prey on a short distance, before rebounding again and to catch it between its claws. It is by lacerating the tree trunks that the ocelot maintains its claws quite sharp-edged. The victim quickly is put at died by a bite at the neck.
The ocelot also drives out in couple. To coordinate their attacks and to give their position, they communicate by pushing small cries.
DISTRIBUTION
One finds this small felid a little everywhere in the north and the center of South America, in Central America and in the south of the United States.
The ocelot is an animal of the forest and bush. In the forest, its fur is of a hot gilded color, which provides him an excellent camouflage on brown-but trees. In the bush, peeling takes a color duller, greyish, which is best camouflages.
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