Ocelot

The ocelot (/ˈɒsəlɒt/; Leopardus pardalis), kent as the dwarf leopard an aa, is a wild cat distributit extensively ower Sooth Americae includin the islands o Trinidad an Margarita, Central Americae, an Mexico. It haes been reportit as far north as Texas.^[4][5] North o Mexico, it is foond regularly anly in the extreme soothren pairt o Texas,^[6] altho thare are rare sichtins in soothren Arizona.^[7]

Ocelot
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Faimily:	Felidae
Genus:	Leopardus
Species:	L. pardalis[2]
Binomial name
Leopardus pardalis[2] (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspeshies
See text
Distribution o the Ocelot, 2016[1]
Synonyms[3]
Felis buffoni Brass, 1911 Felis chati Gray, 1827 Felis hamiltonii J. B. Fischer, 1829 Felis mexicana Kerr, 1792 Felis pardalis Linnaeus, 1758 Leopardus griseus Gray, 1842

The ocelot is similar in appearance tae a domestic cat. Its fur resembles that o a cloodit leopard or jaguar an wis ance regardit as particularly valuable. As a result, hundreds o thoosands o ocelots wur ance killed for thair fur. The feline wis classified a "vulnerable" endangered species frae 1972 till 1996, an is nou ratit "least concern" bi the 2008 IUCN Reid Leet.