jaguarundi


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Synonyms for jaguarundi

long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat

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Can the ocelot and jaguarundi survive the border fence?
& FLORES, A., 2002.--Dieta y nicho de alimentacion del coyote, zorra gris, mapache y jaguarundi en el bosque tropical caducifolio de la costa sur del estado de Jalisco, Mexico.
Rare plants and animals, including the ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), two endangered cat species, persist there.
A hidrografia e constituida pelos Rios: Rio Jaguarundi e Rio Guacu, Sanga das Antas, Sanga Colibri, Sanga Xere, Sanga Guabiroba, Lageado do Norte, Rui Barbo, Sanga Lima, Sanga Real (Nova Santa Rosa, 2007).
Wild populations of the Americas also include the ocelot, bobcat, lynx, margay, pampas cat, mountain cat, tiger cat, jaguarundi, and Geoffrey's cat.
Many witnesses believe they're dealing with the rare and endangered jaguarundi, a close relative of the puma that looks kind of like an otter and weighs slightly more than a house cat.
Sixteen years later, Thomas Wright Moir Cameron (1894-1980), from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, rediscovered the adult tapeworm in a different South American felid, a jaguarundi (Felis yaguarondi), which had died at the London Zoo.
How about a mangay, or a jaguarundi? A roomful of children and parents at the Westboro Public Library learned a fun way at an exotic animal show held there Thursday night.
The roarings of huge creatures are blossoms as are a miniature primate, a Dire wolf, and a jaguarundi crossing a trail by the ocean.
Status and distribution of the endangered ocelot and jaguarundi in Texas.
have yielded a variety of late Pleistocene carnivore taxa that could have produced this damage (e.g., Canis sp., Ursus americanus, Tremarctos floridanus, Panthera onca, Felis inexpectata, Lynx rufus, and Leopardus, a type of jaguarundi).
Other wild cats include the endangered puma, which is slightly smaller than the jaguar, the ocelot and the jaguarundi. The latter can be spotted more easily due to its daytime hunting patterns.