“…In South America, ocelots are listed as Vulnerable in Brasil, Colombia, and Argentina, and in North America, they are listed as Endangered in Mexico and the United States (Hunter, 2015; International Union for the Conservation of Nature 2022). Ocelots occur in heterogenous forested landscapes and often select for areas of mixed and dense forest and vegetation (Hunter, 2015;Wang et al, 2019;Lombardi et al, 2021;Lombardi et al, 2022;Veals et al, 2022). Further, their niche space has been debated with some referring to them as generalists (Paolino et al, 2018, Moreno-Sosa et al, 2022 and others as specialists (Shindle and Tewes, 1998;Haines et al, 2006a;Horne et al, 2009).…”