Ocelot
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An ocelot may cover a leftover meal and return the next night to finish it.
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An ocelot may cover a leftover meal and return the next night to finish it.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Ocelot
- Scientific name
- Leopardus pardalis
- Japanese name
- オセロット
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Felidae
- Genus
- Leopardus
A small wild cat that lives from southern Texas in the United States to northern Argentina. It prefers thick brush and tropical rainforests.
Its body is covered with dark, doughnut-shaped spots, and the patterns on its left and right sides are not the same.
It is active mostly at night. During the day it sleeps hidden in bushes, on a tree branch or inside a hollow tree.
How the Ocelot lives
It may search for food while walking or sit and wait for prey. It mainly eats small rodents. It spends much of its time on the ground but is a strong swimmer and climber.
San Diego Zoo Wildlife AllianceBasic data
- Range
- Southern Texas to northern Argentina
Where the Ocelot has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- オセロット
- 简体中文
- 虎猫
- 繁體中文
- 虎貓
- 한국어
- 오셀롯
- Español
- Ocelote
- Français
- Ocelot
- Deutsch
- Ozelot
- Português (Brasil)
- Jaguatirica
- Italiano
- Ocelot
- हिन्दी
- ऑसेलॉट
- العربية
- أصلوت
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ocelot
- Русский
- Оцелот
- Türkçe
- Oselo
- ไทย
- โอเซลอต
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance — OcelotChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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