### animal | vertebrate | mammal | feline | cat:

Ocelot
* Most ocelots become prey
  - display behavior
* Most ocelots eat animals
  - rodents
  - enter water
  - feed on rodents
* Most ocelots have backs
  - beautiful coats
  - excellent eyesights
  - eye sight
  - habits
* Most ocelots have keen eye sight
  - legs
  - spots
  - tongues
  - vision
  - live in regions
  - pursue prey
  - reach maturity
  - retract claws
  - seek prey
  - stalk prey
* Some ocelots die from exhaustion
  - have coat patterns
* Some ocelots have different coat patterns
  - distribution
  - kittens
  - stripes
  - hunt at nights
  - point teeth
  - possess arms
  - prey on mammals
  - swim in rivers
  - take fish
* also live in Arizona to North Argentina.
* appear to be better adapted to habitat disturbance and can live in disturbed forests.
* are a federally protected species
  - about twice the size as a normal house cat
  - also very good swimmers
  - an endangered species
  - beautiful spotted cats that once roamed from South Texas up into Arkansas and Louisiana
  - carnivores whose diet consists primarily of rabbits, small rodents, and birds
  - carnivorous animals that search for food at night
  - cousins to the leopard, felix pardus
  - endangered due to habitat loss and illegal poaching
  - felines
* are found in every country south of the United States, except Chile
  - throughout large parts of South and Central America
  - generalists, and their diet varies with prey availability
* are generally solitary animals
  - rodents, coming together only to breed
  - hunted for their furs
* are medium-sized cats native to the forests of South America
  - that live in rain forests and grasslands
  - members of the cat family
  - mostly solitary, and usually meet only to mate
  - native to Texas and are on the endangered species list
  - nocturnal and diurnal, feeding mainly on the ground
* are nocturnal, solitary and territorial
  - solitary, and territorial creatures
  - which means they sleep during the day and hunt during the night
  - one of the many endangered species found in Texas
  - primarily nocturnal which means they are active and hunt at night
  - protected in the United States and most other countries where they live
  - smaller than bobcats and have a longer tail
* are solitary and are very territorial
  - terrestrial but margays are skilled tree climbers
  - territorial and solitary creatures
  - the most aquatic of the four animals
  - wild cats from the Americas
  - wildcats
  - yellow to reddish to gray and are marked with black stripes and spots
* breed at all times of the year in tropical regions.
* feed mainly on the ground.
* feed on mice and rats, guinea pigs, monkeys, hares, small deer, and sometimes poultry
  - small mammals, birds, reptiles and insects
* have a slender body and their underside is pale coloured
  - both solid and open dark spots which sometimes run in lines along the body
  - legs that have dark spots and a striped face and head, which varies with each ocelot
  - marks on their fur, which look attractive and unique
  - retractable claws
  - the usualsharp teeth in the back meant for ripping
* hunt prey.
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pads
  - paws
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
* inhabit brushy and forested regions from Texas well into South America.
* is two times bigger than domestic cat.
* live in couples within a circumscribed territory
  - forests, where they hunt, mainly on the ground, both by day and by night
  - glassy plains and forest in South America
* make good pets.
* often live in pairs, hunting together and maintaining contact by calling back and forth
  - solitary within a territory
  - sit perfectly still for a half hour or more waiting for unsuspecting prey
* prefer to hide and ambush.
* prey on rodents, rabbits and songbirds
  - small rodents, rabbits, lizards, snakes and birds
* produce loud yowls when they are ready to mate.
  - sexual mature at about two years, and mate once or twice a year thereafter
* rest in trees during the day and are nocturnal, hunting most of the night.
* sense presence.
* spend much of the day sleeping in the low branches of trees and are most active at night.
* stay with their mother until they are at least a year old.
* thrive in a variety of habitats, from lush groves to arid deserts and forests.
* try to spawn on grass blocks or leaves at sea level or higher in jungle biomes.