Researchers looked for the ideal property to establish a new ocelot population.
, assistant professor of carnivore ecology at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville, spoke to the Texas Standard about the project.Texas Standard: First, can you describe the kind of environment that an ocelot needs to survive? So the kind of habitat that ocelots really, really like is this dense Tamaulipan thornscrub, which is characteristic of where we are here in South Texas. And so they like some dense scrub cover. They like proximity to water and, of course, having an adequate prey base.
And so something that we are moving forward with now is a reintroduction project. So this reintroduction would source essentially second-generation individuals raised in a captive breeding facility and then release those into this third wild population, also in South Texas.
So we’re hoping that by mixing the Texan genetic stock – because the ocelots here are adapted very well to this environment – and then by mixing with zoo females in an artificial insemination procedure, that we can effectively bolster that genetic health in the population. And so this third site will be based still in South Texas, but further west, overlapping with another East Foundation property in and around San AntonioViejo Ranch.
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