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a leopard who never got the memo about being terrifyingly large.
means A small, spotted wild cat native to the Americas, roughly twice the size of a house cat, with a richly patterned coat.
from From the French ocelot, which sprang from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word ocelotl — though here's the twist: in Nahuatl that word actually meant the jaguar, the big terrifying cat. When the name traveled into European languages, it got demoted onto its smaller, dappled cousin, so the modern ocelot is wearing a name that once belonged to its much larger relative.
- surreal pet
- Salvador Dali traveled with one named Babou
- unique coat
- every ocelot's spots are individual fingerprints
- night vision
- sees six times better than humans in dark
- solo hunter
- prowls up to three miles each night
- tree napper
- sleeps draped along branches like wet laundry
for instance
ocelot in texas borderlands — endangered wild population of ~80 individuals in south texas near laguna madre, only breeding ocelots north of mexico