Wild cats share crowded rainforests by hunting at different forest heights. New research shows vertical strategies help ...

Big cats aren’t typically the first animals that come to mind when you picture a species living in harmony. For the most part ...

Camera traps in the jungles of Peru have captured footage of ocelots and opossums traveling together. We have at least four confirmed cases of the two animals walking in tandem, seeming to be ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the Peruvian Amazon, a series of curious encounters has left ...

What do you do with a gluttonous meal that’s just too big to finish? You stick it in the fridge, wait until you’re hungry again, and come back for seconds. Well, it turns out that that’s not a purely ...

The ghost cat pads through the brush on silent, velvety paws. Creeping nimbly under low-lying branches, it uses highly evolved night vision to zero in on prey. A sudden flash of golden brown eyes is ...

There might be more ocelots in Texas than first thought, scientists have said. An unfortunate ocelot was found to have been hit by a car in 2021 in Hidalgo County—just south of Linn, Texas—about 50 ...

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It’s been more than 50 years since the South Texas ocelot — a medium-sized spotted wildcat known for parallel stripes running down its neck — was put on the federal endangered species list. By ...