Ocelots in Australia

[Electus Parrot]

Are there still any ocelots in Australia, maybe up north?

 

[CGSwans]

I think the last one is at Crocodylus Park in Darwin.

 

[dragon(ele)nerd]

Yeah, just saw it last week.

 

[Electus Parrot]

Thanks for that information.

 

[Ara]

Hey E.P., your local zoo (Adelaide) was a great producer of Ocelots many years ago - between 1963 and 1976 they bred 32 Ocelots - a great effort! They were distributed to other Aussie zoos and Adelaide kept quite a few too. ( Those were the days when zoos saw nothing wrong with having several enclosures devoted to the one species; something that doesn't happen too often nowadays.) After that they gradually died out, probably due to the need for new blood and general apathy.