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A domestic cat nurses a baby margay in a pet shelter. The baby margay, locally known as tigrillo, was found in the suburbs and taken to the shelter were it could be fed by the surrogate mother until it is released back to the wild.
Photo: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
This margay was photographed in Peru, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian’s interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
Photo by: LucienTj
Photo by: LucienTj
Photo by: Ben Cooper
The Margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a spotted cat native to Middle and South America. It is a solitary and nocturnal animal that prefers remote sections of the rainforest. The IUCN lists it as “Near Threatened”. It roams the rainforests from Mexico to Argentina. There are ten recognized subspecies.
Photo by: mottazoo
Little-known cat lures prey by crying like a baby monkey
The behavior was first witnessed back in 2005 when Wildlife Conservation Society researchers were following a group of pied tamarins — tiny monkeys the size of squirrels — through the Amazon rain forest. While the monkeys were feeding, both the tamarins and the researchers suddenly became alerted to what sounded like baby tamarin distress calls.
Photo: Wiki Commons/GNU
Thanks to gracecomma for the story tip.
