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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?
Cheers
8 Comments posted on "And the ocelots starts to appears!"
sheryl, washington dc on April 1st, 2008 at 8:17 am
Does each ocelot cat have different markings? I think it’d be hard to tell without a pawprint or something! s.
Paula on April 1st, 2008 at 8:25 am
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 April 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
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 April 1st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Beautiful pictures! They are two different specimens of ocelot. Thank you for this interesting and awesome post!
jaguardetectives on April 8th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Hi Sheryl,
jaguardetectives on April 8th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Yes Paula!
jaguardetectives on April 8th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Dear Theresa,
jaguardetectives on April 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hi Mr. Pechir! Post a comment
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