An ocelot rests on a rock in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona, in 2007. Only seven ocelots, including the one just spotted, have been seen in the state in the last two decades.
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A wildlife camera captured a rare sighting of an endangered ocelot in Arizona this summer. The video marks the first ocelot seen in the Atascosa Highlands region in more than 50 years, and researchers analyzed the animal’s spots to confirm it was new to the state.
“It’s [a] very rare record,” Kinley Ragan, field research project manager for the Phoenix Zoo, tells Shannon Handy of CBS8….
