The nocturnal, solitary ‘Leopardus pardinoides,’ recently recognized as a species, was recorded for the first time in ...

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On a long drive from Colombia’s Caribbean coast to the interior, a traveler spotted something unexpected on the roadside. Lying by the pavement near the town of Fusagasugá, just outside Bogotá, was a ...

Margay, aka the ghost of canopy, gets captured in a trail camera. Close-up picture of a margay or Leopardus wiedii. “Most people will never see one in their lifetime. Camera traps are often the only ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) is our only native wildcat but is not easily encountered because it is nocturnal and frequents forested areas in our mountains and wetlands off the beaten path. Forest ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the Peruvian Amazon, a series of curious encounters has left ...

Scientists are trying to understand footage that showed ocelots and opossums, usually predator and prey, hanging out together. By Clarissa Brincat Screenwriters in search of the next Timon and Pumbaa ...

Andean Mountain Cat. Image by Copyrighted free use, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1038943, via Wikimedia Commons. In a remarkable discovery that has ...

In the gardens and parks of Toyota City, Japan, a small creature turned out to be a new species. Getty Images/iStockphoto To many across the islands of Japan, small tree frogs, or amagaeru, are a ...