And the ocelots starts to appears!
Category: Day by day | Date: Mar 31 2008 | By: admin
Dear friends,
And the photos analyses still revealing nice surprises! Here I want to make a “public” acknowledgement to Mathias Tobler from Botanical Research Institute of Texas. He create a database to organize and prepare the photos from camera traps to statistical analyses. Thank you Mathias!
We started now to identify ocelot pictures. I am a little worried because in this sample there are just a few ocelots records. Think could fix the camera lowest – closest to the ground, on the ocelots eye level. The cameras in Seis R was fixed in this way. Let’s see…
We get a beautiful picture of a tapir with a pub, as you can see the youngest had stripes that they lose when grow up.
On the latest post I put a picture of a melanic cub, think it deserves a little explanation. Melanic is the inverse of albinism, the animal born black and will be black for the rest of his life. It is quite common in jaguar small populations and there are a few studies on this issue. When the Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied came to Brazil and collected samples from 1815 to 1817 he describes the jaguar and the black one as two different species and later he perceives that was the same. Indeed, in our field work sometimes we can see that to the local people is difficulty to the believe this! When we say that the black jaguar in son of a spotted jaguar they give to us just a look that say silently:
- Are you trying to make fun with me?
Adult melanic jaguar on Pará photo taked from our team at Amazonian Forest in Pará. It is possible to see spots and rosets.
And finally the ocelot cat! Can you tell if they are the same individual?
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8 Responses to “And the ocelots starts to appears!”
sheryl, washington dc, on 01 Apr 2008
Does each ocelot cat have different markings? I think it’d be hard to tell without a pawprint or something!
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Paula, on 01 Apr 2008
I’m studying those markings on the shoulder - looks different all along shoulder,fore arm, inner leg and … yes I’m certain. These are two different animals. So do I have what it takes to be an ocelotologist?
Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL, on 01 Apr 2008
Most definetly, these are two different ocelots. Both gorgeous. This melanic jaguar is beautiful. There is a white serval at Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, never would have survived in the wild. Really enjoying your blog and realize this all is a very expensive venture. Hope to help soon.
F. J. Pechir, on 01 Apr 2008
Beautiful pictures! They are two different specimens of ocelot. Thank you for this interesting and awesome post!
jaguardetectives, on 08 Apr 2008
Hi Sheryl,
Yes! All the spotted cats had unique spots and stripes patterns in their body. It is by analogy as “digital impressions”, it allow us use the photos to identify individuals.
jaguardetectives, on 08 Apr 2008
Yes Paula!
That’s the way! Indeed you seens to have the most important issue to be a good “ocelotologist”: Passion! Keep trying with the newest photos!
jaguardetectives, on 08 Apr 2008
Dear Theresa,
Fortunately we don’t have many records of albinism between neotropical species. The serval is quite similar to the ocelot. Beautiful cat! Indeed, it’s really expensive to work with elusive species like cats. Are necessary equipments as the cameras and radio-collars to monitore then. Each camera on the field costs US$ 25.00 monthly (3 batteries C: USD 6.50; 2 batteries AA: USD 3.00; 1 Film roll: 5.50; Film Processing: 10.00). And there are usually many other costs as fuel, field supplies, etc. We already sent a detailed donation items list to be placed on the blog, which will be in there soon. Thank you very much for your concern, all help we can get is really important to us to maintain our work on these species conservation.
jaguardetectives, on 08 Apr 2008
Hi Mr. Pechir!
Thank you! Keep watching, there are new pictures coming!
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