ar-ocelot

The ocelot
=== The scientific name for an ocelot is leopradus pardlis. The ocelot is twice the size of a domestic house cat and can wight any where from 24 to 35 lbs. The average lifespand of an ocelot is 8-11 years. the average litter size is two kittens. Also it is not rare for people to have an ocelot as a pet but its one of the reasons the ocelots numders are droping in the wild. ===

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=== Ocelots habitat is in a variety of forest. The ranges **ocelots are found in are Arizona, Texas, Mexico, Central America, and South America including Northern Argentina, Ecuador, and Paraguay.** ** Behavior & adaptations to its way of life that Ocelot have are for climbing, and for swimming. ** ===

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Their diet **

**The ocelot eats fish,small, weak, and old deer,mice rats and other rodents. When the forest where they live is cut down for farming land the ocelots prey on the cattle, other frame animals, and even small dogs.**

Yes they are endangered


 * Ocelots are endangered animals do to people killing them to make fur coat, it takes about 13 ocelots to make one coat. Now the ocelot are protected but face new challenges because people are takeing these animals out of the wild and domesticating them at a young age. Another reason the ocelot is endangerd is becaues we are tearing down their habitat for farming land and to biuld on to cities. So yes these animals are endangerd and yes we are part of the reason so please take the time to find out more about these poor animals that are at risk of going completely instinct. **

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