Ocelot seen in Argentina for 1st time in decade

Ocelot seen in Argentina for 1st time in decade

Published February 06, 2016/
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Buenos Aires – Ten years after the species was thought to have disappeared in Argentina, an ocelot was sighted in the northeastern province of Corrientes, the Conservation Land Trust said.

The group cooperates with the provincial government of Corrientes to restore fauna and flora in Esteros del Ibera, an expanse of wetlands including San Alonso island, where the ocelot was caught on film in December.

Researchers from the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research's Sub-Tropical Biology Institute confirmed the animal seen in images captured by motion-activated cameras was an ocelot.

"The ocelot is a wild, mid-size feline ... whose original range of distribution extended from the southern U.S. to central Argentina," Sebastian di Martino, coordinator of Conservation Land Trust's species-reintroduction program, told EFE.

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