Q. How fast is their movement? And what areas do they migrate to?
What is their estimated remaining population in which areas?
What is their diet and how much do they consume?
Please help. Thanks!
You don't have to answer them all. Just one or two would help:)
What is their estimated remaining population in which areas?
What is their diet and how much do they consume?
Please help. Thanks!
You don't have to answer them all. Just one or two would help:)
A. hey elle here is a good link to a species account of the ocelot it will answer some of your questions. just make sure you hit next at the bottom of the pages so you can get to more information
http://lynx.uio.no/lynx/catsgportal/cat-website/catfolk/ocelot01.htm
good luck
here is some of it copied for you
Habitat and Distribution
The ocelot is found in every country south of the United States, except Chile, and occupies a wide spectrum of habitats, including mangrove forests and coastal marshes, savannah grasslands and pastures, thorn scrub, and tropical forest of all types (primary, secondary; evergreen, seasonal, and montane -- although it typically occurs at elevations below 1,200 m [Mondolfi 1986, Bisbal 1989, Eisenberg 1990]). Availability of sufficient amounts of dense vegetative cover is the common factor linking the various habitat types where ocelots are found (Navarro 1985, Tewes 1986, Ludlow and Sunquist 1987). Emmons (1988) suggests that ocelot microdistribution is more patchy than would be expected by its wide geographical range (Figure 12), depending upon an abundant rodent prey base and good ground cover. Ocelots generally venture into open areas only on moonless nights or cloudy days (Ludlow and Sunquist 1987, Emmons et al. 1989).
The ocelotâs known range was extended 350 km southwards when its presence was confirmed in Uruguay (Ximénez 1988). At the northern end of its range, only two significant ocelot populations are believed to persist in the south-eastern corner of Texas (Tewes and Everett 1986). Ocelots have been extirpated from Arkansas, Louisiana, eastern Texas and Arizona, although individuals may occasionally cross into Arizona from Mexico
Population Status
Global: Category 5(A)
Regional: Category 4
IUCN: Not Listed
The ocelot was the spotted cat most heavily exploited by the fur trade from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s: Gieteling (1972) estimated that as many as 200,000 animals were taken every year. From 1976 to 1983, net international trade in skins fell to an average of 24,600 pelts annually, and effectively ceased in the late 1980s (Broad 1987, WCMC unpubl. data) (see Part II Chapter 4). In the early 1980s, Mondolfi (1986) reported that commercial hunting had depleted formerly abundant ocelot populations in Venezuela, but more recently R. Hoogesteijn (in litt. 1991) noted that hunting pressure is now greatly reduced, and there are signs of recolonization and recovery. L. Emmons (in litt. 1993) notes that, even at the lowest density estimates (one animal per 5 km2), there would be approximately 800,000 ocelots in forested South America alone, and suggests that true numbers are probably 1.5-3 million.
The ocelot is one of the few small small cats for which spacing and abundance have been studied in several different habitat types.
Lowland rainforest
Manu National Park (Peru): Home ranges of two adult females were 1.6 and 2.5 km2; home ranges of two adult males were 5.9 and 8.1 km2. Resident animals, particularly males, often patrolled the perimeter of their territories, travelling quickly (8.8-10.4 km/hr) and seldom pausing. Density was high, estimated at four resident ocelots per 5 km2 (Emmons 1988).
Iguaçu National Park (Brazil): From a radiotelemetry study in progress, P. Crawshaw (in litt. 1993) reports average home range size for six adult ocelots (2 M, 4 F) as 11.3 km2.
Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (Belize): Home range of one adult female was quite large, 14.3 km2. A sub-adult male had a home range of 31.2 km2. Most of their territories consisted of secondary forest (Konecny 1989).
Seasonally flooded savanna woodland
Venezuelan llanos: Home ranges of two adult males were 9.3 and 11.1 km2. Mean home range for six adult females was 3.4 km2 (range 1.7-6.8). Density was estimated at two resident ocelots per 5 km2 (Ludlow and Sunquist 1987).
Brazilian Pantanal: Home ranges (six months only) of two adult females were 0.8 and 1.5 km2 (Crawshaw and Quigley 1989).
Semi-arid woodland and scrub
Southern Texas (U.S.): In dense brush and oak forest mosaic, an adult male maintained a home range of 3.5 km2, and a female of 2.1 km2 (Navarro 1985). Working in chaparral habitat, Tewes (1986) found a mean home range for five males of 12.3 km2 (range 4.6-17.7) and for three females of 7.0 km2 (range 4.9-9.9).
if you still need more information do a "ocelot species account" search in yahoo
http://lynx.uio.no/lynx/catsgportal/cat-website/catfolk/ocelot01.htm
good luck
here is some of it copied for you
Habitat and Distribution
The ocelot is found in every country south of the United States, except Chile, and occupies a wide spectrum of habitats, including mangrove forests and coastal marshes, savannah grasslands and pastures, thorn scrub, and tropical forest of all types (primary, secondary; evergreen, seasonal, and montane -- although it typically occurs at elevations below 1,200 m [Mondolfi 1986, Bisbal 1989, Eisenberg 1990]). Availability of sufficient amounts of dense vegetative cover is the common factor linking the various habitat types where ocelots are found (Navarro 1985, Tewes 1986, Ludlow and Sunquist 1987). Emmons (1988) suggests that ocelot microdistribution is more patchy than would be expected by its wide geographical range (Figure 12), depending upon an abundant rodent prey base and good ground cover. Ocelots generally venture into open areas only on moonless nights or cloudy days (Ludlow and Sunquist 1987, Emmons et al. 1989).
The ocelotâs known range was extended 350 km southwards when its presence was confirmed in Uruguay (Ximénez 1988). At the northern end of its range, only two significant ocelot populations are believed to persist in the south-eastern corner of Texas (Tewes and Everett 1986). Ocelots have been extirpated from Arkansas, Louisiana, eastern Texas and Arizona, although individuals may occasionally cross into Arizona from Mexico
Population Status
Global: Category 5(A)
Regional: Category 4
IUCN: Not Listed
The ocelot was the spotted cat most heavily exploited by the fur trade from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s: Gieteling (1972) estimated that as many as 200,000 animals were taken every year. From 1976 to 1983, net international trade in skins fell to an average of 24,600 pelts annually, and effectively ceased in the late 1980s (Broad 1987, WCMC unpubl. data) (see Part II Chapter 4). In the early 1980s, Mondolfi (1986) reported that commercial hunting had depleted formerly abundant ocelot populations in Venezuela, but more recently R. Hoogesteijn (in litt. 1991) noted that hunting pressure is now greatly reduced, and there are signs of recolonization and recovery. L. Emmons (in litt. 1993) notes that, even at the lowest density estimates (one animal per 5 km2), there would be approximately 800,000 ocelots in forested South America alone, and suggests that true numbers are probably 1.5-3 million.
The ocelot is one of the few small small cats for which spacing and abundance have been studied in several different habitat types.
Lowland rainforest
Manu National Park (Peru): Home ranges of two adult females were 1.6 and 2.5 km2; home ranges of two adult males were 5.9 and 8.1 km2. Resident animals, particularly males, often patrolled the perimeter of their territories, travelling quickly (8.8-10.4 km/hr) and seldom pausing. Density was high, estimated at four resident ocelots per 5 km2 (Emmons 1988).
Iguaçu National Park (Brazil): From a radiotelemetry study in progress, P. Crawshaw (in litt. 1993) reports average home range size for six adult ocelots (2 M, 4 F) as 11.3 km2.
Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary (Belize): Home range of one adult female was quite large, 14.3 km2. A sub-adult male had a home range of 31.2 km2. Most of their territories consisted of secondary forest (Konecny 1989).
Seasonally flooded savanna woodland
Venezuelan llanos: Home ranges of two adult males were 9.3 and 11.1 km2. Mean home range for six adult females was 3.4 km2 (range 1.7-6.8). Density was estimated at two resident ocelots per 5 km2 (Ludlow and Sunquist 1987).
Brazilian Pantanal: Home ranges (six months only) of two adult females were 0.8 and 1.5 km2 (Crawshaw and Quigley 1989).
Semi-arid woodland and scrub
Southern Texas (U.S.): In dense brush and oak forest mosaic, an adult male maintained a home range of 3.5 km2, and a female of 2.1 km2 (Navarro 1985). Working in chaparral habitat, Tewes (1986) found a mean home range for five males of 12.3 km2 (range 4.6-17.7) and for three females of 7.0 km2 (range 4.9-9.9).
if you still need more information do a "ocelot species account" search in yahoo
Which year did the Mississippi River become more channelized? when they blasted it with dynamite to shorten it?
Q.
A. The chief river of the United States, rising in the lake region of northern Minnesota and flowing about 3,781 km (2,350 mi) generally southward to enter the Gulf of Mexico through a huge delta in southeast Louisiana. Probably discovered by Hernando de Soto in 1541, it was explored by Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet in 1673. La Salle claimed the entire region for France after he descended to the river's mouth in 1682.
20th century
In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its banks in 145 places during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and inundated 27,000 sq mi (70,000 km²) to a depth of up to 30 ft (10 m).
On October 20, 1976, the automobile ferry MV George Prince was struck by a ship traveling upstream as the ferry attempted to cross from Destrehan, Louisiana, to Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died, only eighteen survived the accident.
In 1988, record low water levels provided an opportunity and obligation to examine the climax of the wooden-hulled age. The Mississippi fell to 10 feet (3.0 m) below zero on the Memphis gauge. Four and a half acres of water craft remains were exposed on the bottom of the Mississippi River at West Memphis, Arkansas. They dated to the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The State of Arkansas, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and the Arkansas Archeological Society responded with a two-month data recovery effort. The fieldwork received national media attention as good news in the middle of a drought.
The Great Flood of 1993 was another significant flood, primarily affecting the Mississippi above its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
Two portions of the Mississippi were designated as American Heritage Rivers in 1997: the lower portion around Louisiana and Tennessee, and the upper portion around Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri.
21st century
Campsite at the river in ArkansasIn 2002, Slovenian long-distance swimmer Martin Strel swam the entire length of the river, from Minnesota to Louisiana, over the course of 68 days.
In 2005, the Source to Sea Expedition (http://sourcetosea.net) paddled the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers to benefit the Audubon Society's Upper Mississippi River Campaign.[15][16]
On August 1, 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during the evening rush hour.
Also in 2007, it is expected that more than 150 pleasure boats will travel down the river from Grafton to Cairo while participating in the Great loop, which is circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water.
20th century
In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its banks in 145 places during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and inundated 27,000 sq mi (70,000 km²) to a depth of up to 30 ft (10 m).
On October 20, 1976, the automobile ferry MV George Prince was struck by a ship traveling upstream as the ferry attempted to cross from Destrehan, Louisiana, to Luling, Louisiana. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died, only eighteen survived the accident.
In 1988, record low water levels provided an opportunity and obligation to examine the climax of the wooden-hulled age. The Mississippi fell to 10 feet (3.0 m) below zero on the Memphis gauge. Four and a half acres of water craft remains were exposed on the bottom of the Mississippi River at West Memphis, Arkansas. They dated to the late 19th to early 20th centuries. The State of Arkansas, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and the Arkansas Archeological Society responded with a two-month data recovery effort. The fieldwork received national media attention as good news in the middle of a drought.
The Great Flood of 1993 was another significant flood, primarily affecting the Mississippi above its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
Two portions of the Mississippi were designated as American Heritage Rivers in 1997: the lower portion around Louisiana and Tennessee, and the upper portion around Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri.
21st century
Campsite at the river in ArkansasIn 2002, Slovenian long-distance swimmer Martin Strel swam the entire length of the river, from Minnesota to Louisiana, over the course of 68 days.
In 2005, the Source to Sea Expedition (http://sourcetosea.net) paddled the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers to benefit the Audubon Society's Upper Mississippi River Campaign.[15][16]
On August 1, 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during the evening rush hour.
Also in 2007, it is expected that more than 150 pleasure boats will travel down the river from Grafton to Cairo while participating in the Great loop, which is circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water.
Why was evolution voted out of the schools in Arkansas?
Q. Is Christianity trying to make a recovery?
A. In the West, the theory of evolution continues to be promoted as if it is a proven fact or a secure, testable and tested law. This presentation implies that there is no room, let alone any need, for discussion. The most common media cliche is that the evolutionary chain has been confirmed yet again by yet another discovery of the missing link proving human ancestry from apes. Faced with this kind of promotion and presentation, and the sheer pervasiveness of it, it is no surprise if non-specialists come to accept that the theory must be true, and that it must be accepted by all the specialists, the whole scientific community, with no serious doubters. However, that perception is far from the reality. In the first place, the theory lacks completeness on two major counts and there is no likelihood of these deficiencies ever being made up. In the second, there are major voices of dissent from within the scientific community, alongside alternative theoretical explanations which demonstrate a far superior conformity with observed or experimentally obtained data.
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