The natural range of the ocelot extends from the southern United States to northern Argentina and Uruguay. The cat also inhabits the Caribbean islands. In the wild, it is rarely seen, and those who ...

Biologists call it Tamaulipan thornscrub, after the Mexican state that grows more of it and is home to more of the roughly 30-pound cats. Ocelots thrive where thornscrub’s canopy covers at least ...

Rio, a 6-year-old ocelot, has made her debut in the zoo's Trail of the Jaguar. An ocelot is a medium sized wild cat about two times larger than an average house cat.