Research overview: diurnal activity and edge use in jaguarundi

Unlike most small Neotropical cats, the jaguarundi is frequently active during daylight, a trait that shapes its interactions with people and other felids in shared landscapes. This overview synthesises camera-trap activity studies suggesting temporal partitioning from nocturnal sympatric cats such as ocelots, and the jaguarundi tendency to forage along brushy edges, watercourses and agricultural margins. It examines how diurnality may reduce competition while increasing exposure to human encounter, and the difficulty of drawing firm conclusions from limited records. The synthesis frames the jaguarundi as an instructive contrast in how activity timing structures small-felid coexistence in human-modified terrain.