The Jamaica Defense Force said an escaped animal initially reported to be a tiger cub is actually an ocelot, a wildcat native ...

The country’s leading veterinary expert is warning people here to be cautious if they spot an ocelot, a wildcat resembling a ...

Although domestic cats are common breeds with tabby markings ... makes this feline look like a wild cat, notably, an Ocelot. Ironically, the Ocicat has no feral cat DNA in its gene pool.

Despite its exotic spotted appearance reminiscent of an ocelot, the Ocicat is a completely domestic breed with no recent wild ancestors. Developed in the 1960s through selective breeding of ...

Due to its specialized forest adaptations, the margay is particularly vulnerable to deforestation, and unlike the similar-looking ocelot, it cannot adapt well ... hybridization with domestic cats, and ...

The remains of two domestic cats found in the wreckage of a Spanish conquistador ship were likely the first of the pet to ...

Cats have long accompanied sailors on ships, as was the case for the first domestic cats in what is now the U.S. | Credit: iboter via Getty Images The earliest known domestic cat in what is now the ...

In their study, "The dispersal of domestic cats from Northern Africa and their introduction to Europe over the last two millennia," published on the bioRxiv preprint server , 70 low-coverage ...