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Di Bitetti, Paviolo, and De Angelo combined camera-trap capture-recapture with activity-pattern analysis to characterize ocelot ecology in the threatened Atlantic Forest. They estimated density from i…

Mario S. Di Bitetti, Agustin Paviolo, Carlos De Angelo · Journal of Zoology · 2006

This review synthesized progress in applying in vitro fertilization, embryo culture, embryo transfer, and cryopreservation to nondomestic cats, using the domestic cat as a research model. The author s…

Pope CE · Theriogenology · 2000

Trolle and Kery produced one of the early rigorous density estimates for ocelots, applying closed-population capture-recapture to camera-trap data from the Brazilian Pantanal. Ocelots are well suited…

Mogens Trolle, Marc Kery · Journal of Mammalogy · 2003

Dillon and Kelly combined camera trapping with radio telemetry to study ocelots, using telemetry-derived home-range information to inform and validate camera-trap density estimates. By comparing movem…

Anthony Dillon, Marcella J. Kelly · Journal of Zoology · 2007

The ocelot has served as a focus for applying assisted-reproduction techniques to a small spotted cat of conservation concern. This overview surveys reproductive research on ocelots, including reprodu…

Genetic tools have become central to small-cat conservation, and this overview reviews their applications. Non-invasive sampling of scats and hair allows researchers to confirm the presence of cryptic…

At the northern edge of its range, the ocelot persists in southern Texas as a few small, isolated populations cut off from larger Mexican populations by development and roads. This overview surveys ge…

The small spotted cats of the ocelot lineage in South America, including the ocelot, margay, oncilla or tigrina, and pampas cat, present a tangle of cryptic species, hybrid zones, and unresolved bound…

The small spotted cats of South and Central America, including the margay and the oncilla or little spotted cat, harbor cryptic genetic diversity that has reshaped their taxonomy. This overview survey…

An overview of how co-occurring small felids divide prey to coexist, a less-studied counterpart to big-cat guild ecology. Where species such as ocelots, margays, oncillas, jungle cats, leopard cats an…

Small cats present a hardware problem: their necks may be too slender or their lives too cryptic for conventional collars, so researchers explore alternatives. This overview considers ear-mounted tags…

Spatially explicit capture-recapture using camera traps and individual coat patterns has become the standard method for estimating ocelot density across forest, agricultural and peri-urban mosaics. Th…

The presence of cats in South America results from the Great American Biotic Interchange, when the Isthmus of Panama connected the Americas and allowed northern mammals to disperse south. This overvie…

An overview of the central role small mammals play in the diets of small and medium cats and of big cats during prey shortages. Species such as wildcats, jungle cats, sand cats, ocelots and many other…

Ocelots at the northern edge of their range in Texas show severe genetic erosion, with small isolated populations separated by agriculture and roads exhibiting low diversity and signs of inbreeding. T…

Applying in vitro fertilization to endangered cats aims to produce embryos from valuable individuals, including those that cannot breed naturally, for transfer to surrogates or for banking. This overv…

Many landscapes host several small cats at once, and this overview reviews how they coexist through niche partitioning. Studies of Neotropical and Asian cat assemblages show that sympatric species div…

Dietary studies based on scat analysis and stomach contents describe the ocelot as a generalist hunter that nonetheless concentrates on small terrestrial mammals. Across its range, rodents such as spi…

Ocelots are tightly associated with dense thornscrub providing the cover they need for hunting and travel, making them especially vulnerable to land conversion. This overview synthesises radio-telemet…

Radio-telemetry and spatially explicit capture-recapture studies show ocelots maintaining intrasexual territories, with male ranges overlapping several females while excluding rival males. This overvi…

Activity-budget research using camera traps and accelerometer collars characterizes the ocelot as predominantly nocturnal and crepuscular, with peaks near dusk and dawn that overlap the activity of it…

The ocelot holds one of the broadest ranges of any Neotropical cat, reaching from the thornscrub of southern Texas through Mexico and Central America into the Amazon basin and northern Argentina. This…

Reproductive studies from captive colonies and field monitoring describe ocelots as slow-reproducing for a small cat, typically raising a single kitten, occasionally two, after roughly seventy to eigh…

The ocelot population in south Texas is one of the most endangered cat populations in the United States, and vehicle collisions are a primary threat, making road ecology central to its survival. This…

Behavioral observations and field sign surveys describe how ocelots advertise territory and reproductive state through scent. This overview draws together accounts of urine spraying, fecal deposition…

The remnant ocelot population of south Texas, numbering only a few dozen animals, persists in dense thornscrub fragments amid expanding agriculture, ranchettes and highways. This overview synthesises…

The ocelot and margay are widespread Neotropical cats whose phylogeography reveals how rainforest history structured small felid populations. This overview surveys studies showing pronounced genetic s…

Rivers, streams, and the vegetated strips along them often serve as natural movement corridors for cats, offering cover, water, prey, and continuous habitat threading through otherwise open or develop…

Across the range, and acutely in Texas, vehicle collisions are a leading documented cause of ocelot death. This overview gathers studies linking roads to direct mortality and to the subtler barrier ef…

Agroforestry systems such as shade coffee and cacao, along with tree plantations and pasture-forest mosaics, can provide partial habitat for ocelots, margays, oncillas and jaguarundis across Latin Ame…