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Wild Cat News - Vol 42 March 2011
In this issue
Photo Gallery
Ocelots As Prey Items For Jaguars
Ocelot Kittens Make Zoo Debut
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Two young ocelots born at the Berlin Zoo were shown off to media photographers in
their first major appearance.
Mother ocelots and their kittens have a close bond, but even in the wild, father
ocelots aren't involved in the care of their young. Ocelots are native to parts
of South and Central America, and their range extends into southern Texas, where
the Nature Conservancy is working to increase their territory by securing land previously
held by ranchers.
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Ocelots As Prey Items of Jaguars in Costa Rica ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jaguars are opportunistic predators capable of killing and consuming almost any
type of prey. The list of species consumed is long and varies with geographic location
and availability. A total of 15 jaguar scats were collected during the wet season
by researchers in Las Tablas, a private protected zone in the Talamanca Mountains
of Costa Rica. They worked along trails previously identified as having permanent
presence of jaguars through camera trapping.
The collared peccary accounted for 56.3% of the scats analyzed, and the ocelot 31.3%
which were the majority of the contents and the only animal species found. Data
from follow up analyses in the area during the dry season found no ocelots in the
diet of jaguars.
Camera trapping data from previous studies in the area showed an interesting relationship
of activity patterns. The overlapping activity patterns between ocelot and jaguar
was significantly higher than with collared peccary. Other species previously reported
as important jaguar prey were found to overlap with jaguar activities, but were
not found in jaguar scat.
Small cats are rarely recorded in jaguar diet studies across the tropics and never
represented an important food item until now. Although these findings may be specific
to this type of habitat and season, it is also likely related to the high abundance
of ocelots in the area. In general, there was a low diversity of prey items found
to be consumed in this mountain ecosystem, despite the relatively high diversity
and abundance of potential prey species.
It is probable that the jaguar choose some of their prey based on relative abundance.
However, it is highly probably that there are some preferences in prey selection,
and that jaguars are not simply opportunistic hunters. This report represents a
new interesting observation for both species, and provides a new face for analyzing
sympatricity between these two felid species.
Source: IUCN/CSG Cat News Autumn 2010
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