Ocelot. (Felis Pardalis). Few modern Texas have been fortunate enough to see a reclusive ocelot, but the South Texas brush country along the Rio Grande is one of the last precarious US strongholds for the small, brush-dwelling cats. An exquisitely delicate animal that weighs 20 to 30 pounds, the ocelot feeds mostly on birds and small mammals. It is so shy that even researchers have trouble monitoring the few ocelots remaining in Texas, perhaps as few as 100. An ocelot's pelt is richly patterned with black and sometimes brown, and no two specimens are alike. The markings are an asymmetric maze of spots, rosettes, rings, speckles, bars, and slashes against a sleek, soft grayish-gold. Image size: h.6.5" x 9"w.; Overall size: h.12.5" x 14"w. Ed.475, S/N, Unframed, $148, Stamp & Print; Framed, $238. |
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