Jaguarundi
Jaguarundis
live in North, Central and South America. They
are widespread and not hunted for fur trade but apparently, uncommon or rare
everywhere. (CITES Appendix I, US-ESA endangered (Central and North
America only) Their local names are: Yaguarundi, gato gris, gato montés, gato pardo, zorrogato, onza, leon breñero and tigrillo in Spanish, and anushi puma in Belize. Margay
Margays are nocturnal and
arboreal, terrestrial and solitary. They
feed on arboreal and terrestrial small mammals, birds, and reptiles, but also
some insects and fruit. Their diet
consist on a largely of scansorial rodents, mouse opossums, and birds, implying
that margays capture preys in the trees. They
are found in mature and secondary evergreen and deciduous forests.
The Margay lives in Central and
South America. Widespread, but
always seems more rarely than ocelot, its status is unknown.
Its fur has less value than of ocelot, but margays are caught in traps
set for ocelots. They are threatened by deforestation in Central America.
Their local names are: Tigrillo, gato tigre, gato pintado, tiger cat, gato montés, marcaya, caucel, pichigueta, burricon in Spanish, chat tig in Belize, and chulul in Mayan. Ocelot
They
are similar with the Jaguar (Panthera onca) margays (L. wiedii)
and ocillas (L. tigrinus). They
are not usually heard in field.
Ocelots
are nocturnal and diurnal, terrestrial and solitary. They are entirely
carnivorous, feed chiefly on rodents, supplemented by birds, snakes, lizards,
and other small vertebrates. Ocelots
hunt and capture their prey on the ground; they rarely climb trees, but will
climb to cross over a stream on a branch or sometimes to rest.
They are mainly active at night, when they spend many hours in dense
brush.
They
are found in habitats with good cover from rainforest to riverine scrub in
deserts. Where they are not hunted
for their skins, ocelots adapt well to disturbed habitats around villages, where
they sometimes kill poultry.
They
live in North, Central and South America. Formerly intensively hunted for skin trade, much less so
currently. Ocelots are widespread and common in some areas and naturally or
artificially rare in others. Their local names are: Tigrillo, gato montés, manigordo, gato solo, canaguaro, tigrillo podenco, gato tigre, tigre-chico, yaguarete. Puma
They
are nocturnal and diurnal, terrestrial, solitary.
Feeds chiefly on medium sized and large mammals such as deer, agoutis,
and pacas, but also eats smaller prey such as snakes and rats.
Pumas are found throughout the rainforest, where they seem to keep mostly
to dry ground. They are lovers of
wilderness, normally shy and wary of man, and are rarely seen even where common.
The
Puma is the most adaptable of the world’s cats and is found in many climates
from boreal to tropical, desert to rainforest, and lowland to montane, in
forest, woodland, and scrub habitats with abundant game.
They
live in the North, Central and South America.
Widespread but always uncommon or rare, locally hunted as a predator of
livestock, extinct over much of former range, and locally threatened by
deforestation and over hunting of its prey (CITES Appendix I)
The Pumas are also locally called Leon, Leon Colorado, Leon de montaña, red tiger, tig rouge, and guasura. Jaguar
The
Jaguars are similar with ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) and they
occasionally roar, day or night with a pulsed series of single, deep, resonant,
hoarse grunts that can be heard for several hundred meters.
They
are nocturnal and diurnal, terrestrial, solitary.
Feeds chiefly on large mammals such as capybaras, peccaries, and deer,
also on turtles, tortoises, caiman, birds, fish, and smaller mammals such as
sloths and agoutis. They are found in a wide range of habitats from rainforest to
wet grasslands and arid scrub.
They
live in North, Central and South America. It
is difficult to estimate populations, but jaguars are rare or absent in many
parts of their former range due to over hunting for the fur trade, loss of
habitat by deforestation, persecution by ranchers, and probably loss of their
prey. Only a few hundred are
thought to remain in all of Mesoamerica, but they are still widespread and can
be locally common in Amazonia. (CITES,
Appendix I) The
Jaguar’s local names are: Tigre, jaguar, and tigre real in Spanish,
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