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Wild Cat News - Vol 39 December 2010
In this issue
Photo Gallery
What's New? Flying Cheetah Tees!
Refuge Official Hoping For New Ocelots
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Dear john,
This month's featured feline is the most widespread wild cat in North America, and
one of the few cat species that is not endangered. Our Bobcat fact sheet [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=5ewwracab&et=1103998541775&s=550&e=001Xe-LQEaUaG8xtyr4Rx0uA_nbUfOGaztwUtkzU1oMjR3ffDs64wcMWQ3rnA8DZ9UufT0UmWwGoK5JamhWpxXukAr9_Whc5fOqs6daMLtZQ5qLWgbM74Nwe8cssPrJCE1A8d-ULa2Hz1zZTiCGp2qZfBEZWKdYa3-G3569K_EQF18=]is
updated, including horrific figures for the legal fur trade in these little guys.
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Photo Gallery
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With the addition of our beautiful new Flying Cheetah shirt, we've got cheetahs
on our minds.
This gorgeous cheetah has a rare fur pattern of larger, blotchy, merged spots, and
is known as a king cheetah. Once thought to be a separate species, the king cheetah
has rarely been seen in the wild, but has been bred in captivity. Photo P Cromer.
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What's New?
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A spectacular new Flying Cheetah T-shirt has landed on our website!
This is what a cheetah looks like when he's hot on the trail. ISEC Director Peter
Cromer took this shot at Orana Wildlife Park in New Zealand. Peter says "this cheetah
is one of three sprinting after a lure in a 300 meter grass paddock and now braking
in a shower of dust and stones from 80 kph. He is about to start hissing and spitting
at yours truly who has dared to invade his domain".
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Snow Cats On Your Wall
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are reading about the small wild cats. Reading, but not donating.
The wild cats know nothing of economic conditions. All they know is that their habitat
is disappearing at astonishing rates, and food and mates may be getting harder to
find. There is even more urgency to learn how to help them survive.
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Refuge Officials Hoping To Find Some New Ocelots
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Biologists at a far South Texas wildlife refuge are hoping to find some new ocelots
as they begin putting out traps to catch and then track the animals.
Jody Mays, a biologist in charge of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge's
ocelot program, said because of pictures that have been taken, they believe they
may have one to three female cats that have not previously been documented.
There are only about 50 of the wild cats left in the United States, all of them
in South Texas. About 25 ocelots live at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
or on nearby land.
About 15 to 20 traps have recently been set to catch ocelots, which are about twice
the size of a house cat and known for their distinctive yellow and black spotted
fur.
Mays said if new ocelots are found living close to the refuge, inquiries might be
made about buying land to protect them.
She's hopeful they'll be able to trap more than the six they got last year. She
said the traps are baited and checked early in the morning.
"If we catch an ocelot, we put it under anesthesia, then we give it a physical and
look at the health of the animal to see if it has any injuries," she said.
Once trapped, a passive integrated responder, which Mays said gives the animal a
unique identification, is placed between the shoulder blades if there is not one
already there. Then, a radio-tracking collar is placed on the ocelot, which helps
biologists monitor its movements.
The collar's battery lasts about a year and eventually the collar will fall off.
"Once we put a radio-tracking collar on, then that's basically it," she said. "We
then release the cat where it was caught and we're able to track it without affecting
its movements.
"We can find out where it's moving and when it's moving and put that on a map,"
she said.
Source: http://www.valleystar.com
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