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Camera catches ocelot creeping through county


Fri, 04/16/2010 - 23:17



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An ocelot photographed in northern Mexico in an area biologically connected to the region in the U.S. where the Arizona ocelot has been discovered. This is not the ocelot that was photographed in Cochise County. © 2008 Sky Island Alliance and Rancho el Aribabi




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SIERRA VISTA — Remote cameras in Cochise County have captured the image of an ocelot, a rare tropical cat.

Sky Island Alliance, a Tucson-based regional conservation organization, recently photographed the cat while participating in the Witness for Wildlife program, which is supported by the Freedom to Roam Coalition and Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company. 

Sky Island Alliance sets remote cameras to unobtrusively observe wildlife and assess wildlife corridors in Arizona’s Sky Island region. 

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count me out on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 23:15
Title: just great.

Great, now we can have the fools at AZ Game and Fish come set bear traps like
they did with the Jaquar Macho B just over year ago. That of course led to
his untimely death. We’d be better off not exposing things like this, just
informs too many fools. [and please don’t censor this post again. why you did
that is beyond me, you got buddies at Game and Fish?)]

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WW2 Marine Veteran on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 18:05
Title: Ocelot

I surely hope everyone leaves the ocelot in Cochise County alone. That is one
beautiful cat.

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Hereford Resident
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on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:45
Title: Picture

Ok why is the picture not of the cat the story is about? Why talk about a
picture that was captured of the cat here in Cochise county and not show the
picture in question. The SVH is really bad at reporting.

Ran Talbott on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 10:00
Title: It IS the same cat.

But the ocelot is disputing it because it got two photo radar tickets last
year, and, if it gets one more its license will be suspended….

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Mommy Dearest on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 21:35
Title: Still, it's a real great picture...

That’s one pretty cat! I know this much, I would hate for that thing to eat
my barky little dog…and she would be talkin’ trash to it…because it’s a
CAT! Oh she loves cats, when she was younger she had a cat that was very
sweet and friendly to her. Since then she’s met some that were not so
friendly to her and her curious little nose. That cat is really something to
see. I have seen bob-cats, in fact a few years ago a friend of mine sent me a
picture from a Tucson newspaper of a bob-cat that had climbed a Saguaro
Cactus. He looked scrubby and did not look too happy. I think it was at the
Saguaro National Park…Out here we have a lot of wild life, deer javalina
skunks (eek!) I think I would worry about this ocelot critter. I am so glad
that the dog doesn’t try to yap at the skunks, she has sense enough to leave
them alone.

LocalCynic on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 15:21
Title: Ocelot

Wow. How very exciting for us!

mike b on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 08:14
Title: ocelot zealots

OH NO, now the eco-wacko’s are going to try to get it on the endangered
species list and try to put giant swaths of public land off-limits to the
people of Arizona.Center for Biological Diversity and others of their ilk are
 Facists…

Arizona 56 on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 13:00
Title: Did you even read the

Did you even read the article? The ocelot has been on the endangered species
list since 1982.