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tags: Ocelot, Leopardus pardalis, Joel Sartore, National Geographic, image of the day
Ocelot, Leopardus pardalis.
195 animals remaining (Estimated U.S. population is fewer than 100 wild, 95 captive).
Image: Joel Sartore/National Geographic [larger view].
The photographer writes;
Wild ocelots…
A partially dissected head of an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), showing some of the internal anatomy, in the collection at the New Jersey State Museum. (And here is a similar preserved sea lion head in the same collection.)
Margay, Leopardus wiedii Schinz 1821
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Oncilla Leopardus tigrinus Schreber 1775
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If you want to see how the colocolo painting is coming along, click on my name. If you want to see the original photo, click http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/view.php?tid=3&did=28675.