'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-rare-species-area-years-arizona.html

by wglb • 2 years ago

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darknavi• 2 years ago

No video of the trail cam in the article?

Edit: Found it here https://youtu.be/ZkkMhLq0cm0?t=18

shiroiushi2• 2 years ago

You simply can't even expect any useful photos in modern journalism, much less links to video.

__jonas• 2 years ago

It's crazy to me as well, but I suppose this might be a case of the rights to this video being sold exclusively to CBS or something?

aqfamnzc• 2 years ago

It's because if they include the prize, people will spend more time reading the article.

bparsons• 2 years ago

It blows my mind the number of articles written about a specific photo or video, without embedding or linking to said media.

Modified3019• 2 years ago

The rare species is an ocelot.

flybrand• 2 years ago

thank you

mtillman• 2 years ago

They called it a “new ocelot” in the article which confused me. Annoyingly buried in the article. Also, anyone else immediately scream Babou! in their head?

mau013• 2 years ago

Yep yep yep

Also did you know that the origin of that joke is that Salvador Dalí had a pet ocelot named Babou which he apparently took on his travels!!

(Funny enough I just found that out this last weekend haha)

PUSH_AX• 2 years ago

Thanks!

adriand• 2 years ago

Wild animals are so amazing, and this is a wild animal that seems to me to be extra-amazing. Think about the skills required to survive in this environment. No tools! No GPS coordinates for the nearest water source. No grocery store: anything it wants to eat is as wily and tough as it is. And it’s so stealthy and elusive that we’d never see it without the use of high-tech infrared cameras. This creature is a real world superhero character.

trhway• 2 years ago

Think about the skills required to survive in this environment.

yes, that level of skills makes a scorpion just a delicious snack for the fennec (desert fox)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISsA591ApQM

pests4• 2 years ago

I joke, but its stuff like this that makes the existence of bigfoot / etc possible. Take this ocelot and give him better limbs, more intelligence, and a desire / need / instinct to avoid humans at all costs.

I could see some animal / creature being so good at avoiding humans that we have never seen them but yet they are all around.

bamboozled• 2 years ago

If it had more intelligence than a gorilla , wouldn’t it be somewhat like us ? Why would it want to hide in the forest ?

ackbar03• 2 years ago

These stories seem to be pretty common, where some species thought to be extinct suddenly shows up somewhere. Nature seems to usually find a way. That's a beautiful cat.

mayneack• 2 years ago

I don't think it was thought to be extinct, just no longer present in AZ.

Miraltar• 2 years ago

It's not even in AZ but in some part of AZ

MrVandemar• 2 years ago

When a species thought to be extinct suddenly shows up somewhere, it usually means that the species is functionally extinct anyway, it's just a matter of time.

tedchs• 2 years ago

They say this is the first time an ocelot has been spotted in 50 years, but I beg to differ. An ocelot is /always/ spotted.

DaoVeles• 2 years ago

* Flips table! * I love it!!!

throwup238• 2 years ago

Not always. Albino ocelots don’t have spots.

</nitpick of doom>

catoc• 2 years ago

yeah, but you don’t spot albino’celot

</I’ll show myself out>

vasco• 2 years ago

They also say 50 years in the title and <=10 years later: "In the past decade, another ocelot, named Lil' Jefe, has been spotted roaming in the state, the Arizona Republic reported"

spiderfarmer• 2 years ago

It has been roaming spotted in the state.

IanCal• 2 years ago

50 years since it was seen in the area

This was the first time an ocelot has been seen "in the Atascosa Highlands region in at least 50 years," the zoo said.

HarHarVeryFunny• 2 years ago

It seems pretty safe to say there's a breeding population of them.

It does make you wonder if the Tasmanian Tiger may yet be found to still be around, given the way more remote and easy-to-hide-in habitats where it may be expected to be found.

0xdeadbeefbabe2• 2 years ago

It's less remarkable that he said his name.

nwoli• 2 years ago

Reddit reply

Log_out_• 2 years ago

Onwards to the papers to the trail to make penis pills.

shadowgovt• 2 years ago

One of the things I love about wildlife researchers is that so many of them seem to be driven by two parts science and one part the simple visceral pleasure of "I saw a cool cat today."

iambateman• 2 years ago

I like this, an ocelot!

pvaldes• 2 years ago

The zoom at the end of the video is the interesting part. The body proportions discard an occicat. There are several species that could fit. Leopardus pardalis ocelote is the most probable, but we need to remind that Leopardus wiedii, the margay, has been registered in Texas. Without a size reference (Occelot is bigger) both are indistinguishable.

This if we assume that is not a lost pet. Seems well feed and active, so probably not, but there are several South-American species more that could fit, like the Tigrillo Leopardus tigrinus. All are smaller than an occelot

K2h• 2 years ago

I live in an urban environment and one day when i got the lawn mower out of the shed felt some resistance. A regular 5hp gas powered push mower usually rolls ok but on this day it was stuck. After wrestling it out of the shed i started to turn it over to see what the hangup was and low and behold a small skunk walks out and strolls away. I was a little worried i was going to get sprayed, but also super excited about seing a skunk. It did not spray.

'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera

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